Cambridge, Mass.
1901.
June 27
(No 2)
low, flat open country through which Coolidge Brook
flows on its way from Mt. Auburn to the salt marsh
and Charles River proved to be alive with birds.
  This level, alluvial flat once, no doubt, an estuary
of Charles River, comprises some eight or ten acres of
which scarce one third is at present devoted to grass
the remainder being under high cultivation and planted
with various kinds of vegetables. About its edges and
along the banks of the brook which intersects it grow
many of the commoner native shrubs, either singly or
in scattered clusters. The dense thickets of
barberry and privet overrun with green briar which once
bordered the cart paths that run around the base of the
hill to the eastward were cut away several years ago
by the Gypsy Moth Commission but many of the larger
oaks and a few of the buttonwoods still remain.
The northern slope is essentially unchanged. There are
still the old piggery, the little cluster of tall oaks next
it, and the apple trees & farming land on the hill
top behind. South of the flat lands lies Cambridge
and past the ends of the hill to the
eastward one gets glympses of the salt marshes which
border Charles River.
Within the area thus roughly defined and described
I noted the following birds.
1. Robin. - 1 in full song
2. Yellow Warbler 1 in full song
3. Red-eyed Vireo 1 in full song
4. Yellow-throated Vireo 1 in full song
5. Warbling Vireo 1 in the distance towards the Hayes estate.
6. Chipping Sparrow Three or four males singing (One bird seen at Hospital)
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