1902.
May 18
(No 3)
  the evening, as far as I could see, was a perfect
duplicate in every way of that of yesterday. That
the birds were all there is a matter of no doubt
for I either saw most of them or heard them
chirping among the thickets.
  The Phoebees nest in the cellar under the new
barn held two eggs yesterday. I have never once
seen more than a single bird near this nest. He
sang a little to-day & at evening I found him
perched on one of the branches of the cedar posts
that support the piazza roof. The other Phoebees
were feeding their young in the nest under the
eaves of the old barn this afternoon.
  Gilbert showed me a nest of a Yellow-throated 
Vireo to-day. It is in the elm at the east
end of the house near the extremity of a short
branch about thirty feet above the ground. I saw
the bird enter it with her bill full of building
material which she worked into the lining.
  Robins are not much given to nesting on
buildings in this region (certainly much less so than
on Cape Cod) but we discovered one this afternoon
sitting on an exceptionally small nest built on
a ledge just under the eaves of the farm house
on the left side of the front door.
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