Waltham, Mass.
1900
June 26
(No. 2)
and having her picture taken as already mentioned she
quietly entered the nest while we were standing within
thirty or forty feet of it. After being started from it a
second time she flitted from tree to tree around us
frequently alighting at the extremity of some low branch
with twenty feet or less showing curiosity rather than
alarm or anxiety and maintaining absolute silence. After the
end of the branch had been sawed off & the nest & eggs taken
she came into the tree & inspected the remaining part
of the stub while we were sitting on the grass nearly
under it. The eggs were five in number, apparently
nearly fresh and unusually beautiful.
Nest of
Myiarchus
  On watching the Flycatchers I noticed, as I have
frequently done before, that their motions while perched
 are much more deliberate than those of
any of the other members of the Tyrannidae which
occur in New England. They have a way of alighting
among thickly-growing leaves and peering into them
in much the same manner as a Vireo, rolling the head
slowly from side to side. 
  After taking the flycatcher's nest we rambled about
through the woods at the north end of the pond
visiting the point where I used to have a shooting 
stand over thirty years ago. The place has been greatly 
changed by the removal of all the small trees &
underbrush & is apparently now much used as a
pic-nic grove. We heard a number of common birds
including a Pine Warbler, Red start, Veery, two Yellow-throated
Vireos, Cat-birds, a Quail etc. Bobolinks were singing
in a meadow outside the woods.
Sherman's 
Pond
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