1902.
May 25
(No 3)
  Chestnut-sided Warblers' nests on the roadside at the
farm had evidently suffered a like fate.
  The female Hummingbird was on her nest in the big elm
and apparently sitting steadily (at 11 A.M.). I was mistaken
in stating that this nest is not on the same branch as
the one last year. It is on a different fork of the
same branch on about the same level and some six feet
from the site of the former nest. The latter was in situ
when I left the farm last autumn but it had disappeared
when I returned this spring (in March).
  On putting my hand into the Phoebe's nest in the store
house shed at Ball's Hill this morning I could feel young
apparently several days old. The young in the nest under
the eaves of the barn at the farm are well-feathered &
apparently nearly ready to fly. There were four stone-cold
eggs in the nest in the new farm cellar and a fifth broken
on the ground beneath which the birds were not seen.
  We examined the Chickadee's nests to-day. From one
in a rather neatly-drilled hole in a pitch pine stub in the
woods at the farm the bird flew when we rapped on
the trunk. We could not see into this nest without enlarging
the entrance hole which entered the side of the shrub about
four feet above the ground and resembled that of a Downy
Woodpecker save that its edges were more ragged - a characteristic,
I believe, of holes made by the Chickadee.
  The other two nests were the ones near the cabin found by
Bowditch and Nichols on the 12th. At that date the birds
were laying, one nest containing at least five eggs & the other
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