Concord, Mass.
1902.
April 11.
  Cloudy most of the day but the sun shone for a
brief interval in the forenoon and again at sunset.
Light rain in early morning. Wind N. to N.W. light.
Temperature higher than for several days past.
  Early this morning I heard singing near the cabin
and Phoebes, one or two Fox Sparrows, a Robin, a
Song Sparrow and a large flock of Red-wings. The
last-named made a tremendous noise although they
were at some distance and I think on the opposite
side of the river.
  At the farm, where I spent the day transplanting 
trees, I saw or heard several Robins, a pair of Bluebirds,
a White-bellied Swallow (which alighted on one of
my bird houses & peeped into the hole), a Field
Sparrow (singing in the pasture west of the house),
a Grass Finch singing (I heard another near Pine
Park), a Dove cooing near the spring, several Crows
and one or two Blue Jays.
  The Phoebes were flitting about the farm all day
and shortly after noon I saw one of them take
several bill-fulls of building material to the ledge
under the eaves where the pair nested last year.
Apparently they had only just began the new nest
to-day for it had not advanced sufficiently to be
visable from the ground below.
Phoebee building at the farm.
  Gilbert reports seeing a Robin beginning her nest
on the same branch of the isolated pine near the
West Bedford station where a bird nested last year.
Robin building.
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