Cambridge, Mass.
1901.
June 26
(No 8)
The full list noted on the Norton
estate this morning is as follows: -
1. Robin. - 8 or 10 old birds, several singing.
2. Chickadee. - One uttering the phoebe note loudly and incessantly.
3. Yellow Warbler. - One in full song.
4. Redstart. - One in full song.
5. Red-eyed Vireo. - One in full song.
6. Warbling Vireo. - One in full song in a tree outside the woods.
7. Yellow throated Vireo.- One in full song.
8. Cedar bird. - One heard lisping.
9. Chipping Sparrow. A male & a female seen feeding young on wing.
10. Rose breasted Grosbeak. One heard clicking.
11. English sparrow - Perhaps half a dozen.
12. Crow. 2 birds cawing loudly.
13. Bronzed Grackles. A dozen or more walking about on the ground.
14. Baltimore Oriole. - An old male in full song.
15. Wood Pewee. - One singing in the pines over the driveway.
16. Chimney Swifts. - Several flying high over the trees.
17. Flicker. - One shouting.
18. White breasted Nuthatch. - One heard calling faintly in the
distance. I afterwards learned from Miss Forster of Somerville
that a pair of these Nuthatches nested and reared their young
successfully during the present season in a dead tree on the
avenue leading to the Norton's house.
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