Cambridge, Mass.
1901. 
June 26.
  Clear and very warm with light S.W. wind.
  I rose at 6 A.M. and spent the following hour in
our garden. It was simply alive with birds. I heard singing
2 Robins, a Cat bird, Yellow Warbler, Redstart, Red-eyed
Vireo, Warbling Vireo, Yellow-throated Vireo, and Yellow-billed Cuckoo.
Garden birds
  One of the cherry trees was filled with Robins and Grackles
(mostly young) which were feeding on the ripe fruit of which
the Cat bird partook, also. The Redstarts have their young
on wing but the Cat birds have apparently lost their first
brood (I suspect that the rats have devoured them) and
are building another nest.
Late this afternoon
I started a young Catbird among
the spireae bushes within a yard of 
the nest. It could only flutter a few
feet at a time. Probably the remainder
of the brood are all right.
Chimney Swifts were twittering
over the garden early in the morning. At noon two young
Grackles bathed in the earthen dishes under the museum
window. No Chippies, Least Flycatchers nor Purple Finches
have visited within our grounds this season although all
three species have visited us at more or less frequent
intervals, as have the Flickers and Crows also. There 
has been at least one Oriole's nest not far off.
Grosbeaks have been seen in the garden on several occasions
this month by Mr. Deane. but none have nested there.
The Gray Squirrels have reared a brood of fine young
in a hole of one of the large apple trees near the
north gate. They have shown almost no fear of us since
their first appearance. Rats are numerous but
I cannot learn that they have done much harm. 
A male Hummingbird which was seen Mrs J. J. Greenough
on May 12th fluttering against the window of her
house on Riedesel Street is the only Hummer that has been
observed in this neighborhood thus far this year.
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