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Spring & early summer
Concord, Mass.
1913

6. Catbird. - Arrived May 2 [May 2, 1913]. Singing next day. Not in full
regular song until after 15th [May 15, 1913]. Height of first song found
18th [May 18, 1913] to 25th [May 25, 1913]. Sang fitfully through June at times freely for
a day or two. At the farm we had, as usual, a pair
nesting in the dense forsythia thicket directly in front of the
house and another in the syringa hedge towards the rear of
the flower garden. Although I did not find either nest I
think young were hatched and reared in both for the parent bird
was soon taking food into the bushes for a week or more
in June and once I heard young calling. On June 14th [June 14, 1913] I
found body & wing feathers of an adult scattered on the
ground near the forsythia thicket indicating that one of the parent
birds had been killed there but both birds of both pairs were
seen together after this. They fed freely on ripe cherries late in June.
A [male] cat-bird sang throughout the season in our berry
pasture and I heard another occasionally across the river
from the boat landing at Ball's Hill.