Concord, Mass.
1901.
June 30
  Brilliantly clear with fresh W. wind; a warm
but by no means uncomfortable day.
  The Forbeses and I went to the farm in the
forenoon by way of Davis's Hill. Heard a Blackburnian
Warbler singing in Prescott's pines and a Dove cooing
in the pitch pine woods south of the Green Field. 
Most of the common birds were singing freely and well.
  In the grove behind the barn at the farm we found
four species of Vireos the Solitary, Yellow-throated, Red eyed
and Warbling. The Solitary was in full song.
  The young Hummingbirds were still in the nest in the big
elm. They looked nearly full grown and we could see
that they were well feathered and that their bills
were already long & slender. The female parent was darting
about in the tree alighting on dead twigs but although
she came and went many times during the hour
that we spent watching the nest she did not once
go to it. Apparently she was disturbed by our presence
although we were lying, most of the time, on the
ground fifty feet or more from the base of the tree.
  In the afternoon we went down river in the
sailing canoes. As we were passing Davis's Hill a
"Kicker" began singing in the meadow opposite although
it was barely 3 P.M. and the sun was shining
brightly. The bird uttered his notes (the normal ki-ki-ki-ki-kiu) a dosen times
or more but he was silent when we passed the
place on our return at about 5 P.M. nor did we
hear any others at evening when we paddled up river
nearly to Hunt's Pond.
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