Concord, Mass.
1901.
July 1
  Clear and intensely hot with little or no wind.
  Took electric car to Concord at 9 A.M. and drove
them to the farm with C. spending most of the day
in or about the old farm house. Birds were singing
fairly well in spite of the terrible heat but they
became nearly silent after noon. I heard the usual
species among them the Solitary Vireo in the
grove behind the barn. 
  The young hummingbirds were still in the nest but
although we watched them some time the parent 
did not appear.
  A pair of Flickers have a nest in an apple tree
in the orchard. I was standing within a few yards
of it this afternoon when one of the old birds
alighted just below the hole and made a low call.
Instantly the heads of several young appeared 
at the hole. The parent then fed one of them
in precisely the same manner as the bird which
I watched at the Buttricks years ago.
   Just as the Forbeses and I were finishing breakfast
this morning Gilbert came in to say that he had
found a brood of young Screech Owls near the cabin.
  There were three young birds perched in a row on the
branch of an oak over the path near the eastern end
of the Hill. One was red, the other two were gray.
All three had a good deal of down still adhering to
the tops of their feathers. As we stood looking at them
my eye chanced to fall on their parent, a gray bird
sitting in a tree a little back from the path. Half an hour
later the young had joined their mother and the whole
family were crowded close together on the same branch.
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