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Spring and early summer.
Concord, Mass.
1913.

7 Brown Thrasher. Quite as scarce this year as they were last year.
On April 25 [April 25, 1913] I saw a silent bird near our hen house at the Farm.
He frequented the thickets on the neighboring hill side during the remainder
of the season occasionally appearing in the flower garden or in front of the
house. Beginning to sing on May 3 [May 3, 1913] he flooded the place with his
glorious music in the early morning between the 9th [May 9, 1913] & the 21st [May 21, 1913]
and sang almost continuously all day long on the 15th [May 15, 1913]. After the
22nd [May 22, 1913] I heard him only twice - on June 12th [June 12, 1913] when he sang for
about 2 minutes shortly after sunrise and again on the 29th [June 29, 1913] when
he was in full song for several minutes about 8 A.M. During
the height of his song period he usually perched, while singing,
in the tops of the tallest trees about the place, usually in those
of the oaks just behind the barn or of the elms in front of it.
If, as probable, he had a mate & nest I failed to obtain
definite proof of the fact. The only other Thrasher I noted
this year was a [male] in full song near W. Bedford [West Bedford] station on May 5 [May 5, 1913].