Concord, Mass.
1901.
June 2
  Sunny most of the day with light, variable but for the 
most part easterly winds.
  Walter Deane and I went to the farm in the forenoon
rowing up to Dakin's Hill and walking the remainder 
of the way.
  The water is at a pitch unprecedented within my
recollection for this season and mostly up to that of
the early spring floods. The meadows are so deeply
submerged that no grass is visible anywhere and
the tops of most of the bushes are covered. We saw
only five or six Red-wings but found two of their nests
in bushes on the edge of the woods at Holden's Hill.
Most of the birds have evidently left the river during
the past two weeks.
  Many of the Bobolinks, too, have been driven from
their several haunts and this no doubt will account 
for their unusual abundance today on the Holden
farm where we saw three males and a female in 
the field in front of the house. There were also two
pairs in the field near the Holden spring and a
male singing in Lawrence's field.
  We spent several hours walking about in the
woods and openings at the farm where we found
a large number of birds as the following list will
show. It contains only birds seen or heard on the
farm itself most of them near the house although
a few including the Blackburnian and Black throated
Green Warblers were in the woods near Pulpit Rock.
The list probably includes nearly all the species
that are breeding on the farm this season.
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