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Concord, Mass.
Spring and early summer.
1913.

83.  Yellow-bellied Woodpecker. On April 24 [April 24, 1913] a [female] Sapsucker appeared
in the grove behind the old barn at the Farm and spent the day
there, digging "wells" in the smooth bark of a medium-sized
hickory[.]

84.  Flicker. March 15 - July 1. Present in normal numbers.
At the Farm two pairs nested in hollow trunks boarded over
at both ends & hung in apple trees. Similar accommodations at 
Ball's Hill were taken advantage of by a pair who chose 
a hollow section suspended in a maple growing at the edge
of the river meadows. The "shouting" of the male Flicker waned
towards the end of May and was seldom heard during the
first half of June but was partially renewed later in
the latter month. Young fresh from the nest were heard
"shouting" feebly at the Farm on the 26th [June 26, 1913].

85.  Kingfisher. April 8 - July 2. As usual, one or two birds were
seen daily along the river near Ball's Hill whenever we were there
to look for them. No doubt they nested in Mr. Howe's sandbank,
as they have done for several years, but I did not visit it to see.

86.  Yellow-billed Cuckoo. First noted May 25 [May 25, 1913]. After that they
were heard very frequently up to July 2 [July 2, 1913], both at the Farm
and at Ball's Hill. They seemed to be present in somewhat
greater numbers than usual.

87.  Black-billed Cuckoo. Arrived May 18 [May 18, 1913]. Throughout the
remainder of that month and the whole of June they were
apparently as numerously represented as the Yellow-bills & [seemed]
to be frequenting much the same places. Both at Ball's Hill &
the Farm the notes of one species were often heard immediately
following that of the other in the same grass or thicket.