1901.
June 2
(No 5)
am unable to investigate the matter fully.
  In the afternoon Walter and I went through the
Blakemore Woods and over Pine Ridge where we found 
a female Bay-breasted Warbler feeding in the same cluster of 
pitch pines where I saw a female last year.
  Early this morning we heard Black-polls singing all
about Ball's Hill and saw five or six males and two females.
  An Alder Flycatcher in the submerged belt of trees &
bushes on the opposite side of the river near the stone
boat house was exceedingly noisy from 7 to 8 A.M.
uttering his harsh qui-witchy at short, regular intervals.
  A Redstart was beginning her nest this morning in the
same fork of the same birch by the landing near the
cabin where a nest was first built two years ago. 
I saw one building in an apple tree by the old well
at the farm on May 28.
  Cuckoos are pitifully scarce this year. Thus far
I have heard only three or four - all Black-bills.
  There are literally no Rails and as yet no Marsh Wrens.
I had begun to fear that the Bittern had given up
attempting to breed and had departed but I heard one
pumping this morning in the direction of Hobb's Camp.
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