Waverley, Mass.
1901.
June 25
  Early morning cloudy; remainder of day clear & warm.
  On June 22nd Mr. Hoffman told me that he
had just seen (I think that morning) an Alder Flycatcher
which Mr. Faxon had discovered at Waverley and which
was evidently settled for the season and probably
breeding altogether up to that time neither its nest
nor mate had been found. At 8.30 this morning
Walter Deane & I took an electric car for Waverley
getting off at Beech Street. On one side of the main
road the swampy oak and chestnut woods, where the
gypsies camp, still stands practically untouched. On
the opposite (northern) side all the trees were cut
away seven or eight years ago and the ground which
they covered is now occupied by a truck farm under
high cultivation. Just beyond this cultivated 
ground lies a meadow traversed by a brook and
bounded on two sides by a deep drainage ditch which connects
with the brook. Along the banks of the brook and
ditch grow luxuriant thickets composed chiefly of
panicled cornel, alder, raspberry and blackberry
bushes with a variety of other commoner wild shrubs. If the
Flycatcher really has a nest it is probably concealed
in down one of these thickets for they are very like
those which the species affects at the north and
the Waverley bird has been usually seen perched
in the top of a dead tree directly over one of them.
He was not there this morning, however, but somewhere
in a group of tall elms flanked by rum
cherries & other than that grew along the course
of the brook just below the meadow. We did
Alder Flycatcher
at Waverley
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