Concord, Mass.
1900.
June 16
(No 2)
at intervals through the day.
  At the Barrett farm I inspected the Indigo Bird's
nest in the raspberry bushes near the barn & found
that it contained one young bird about 4 days old
& one or two infertile eggs.
Nest of
Indigo Bird
at Farm
  All the eggs had hatched since my last visit
in the Nashville Warbler's nest in the opening just
behind Ball's Hill and the five young, several days
old & already showing pin feathers, filled the nest to 
overflowing.
Nest of
Nashville W.
at Ball's H.
  At Pulpit Rock two Blackburnian Warblers were
singing and two partridges drumming, one on the
wall where the sword ferns grow, the other near the
western entrance to birch field. I heard another cock
Partridge drumming in the usual place in Davis's Swamp.
Blackburnian
Warblers
  As I was standing motionless on the south side
of Pulpit Rock watching a Gray Squirrel I saw a Fox
coming down the middle of the run. Trotting slowly
in a nearly straight line he had nearly passed me
at a distance of about 20 yards when I made a low 
squeaking sound. He instantly turned towards me &
stopped raising his head & listening intently. I squeaked
again when he advanced a yard or two & again stopped
about ten feet of me. Even then he did not appear to 
see me although there was nothing between us taller than
a Pyrola plant. But his suspicions were instantly
aroused and after sniffing the air once or twice he
drew back & walking a half circle around me got my
wind when he at once started off at a great pace
taking long, light bounds & quickly disappearing among
"Squeaking
 up" a
Fox
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