86.
Concord, Mass.
1913
Aug. 26
to
Nov. 13
(No 37)

uttered within my hearing and near the house by an unseen bird
(or birds). The species was last noted on October 15 [October 15, 1913] when a 
juv. [juvenile] [male] & [female] were seen in the orchard digging wells industriously 
in the trunk of an apple tree and quarreling over their possession
incessantly, the [male] usually prevailing and driving the [female] away for 
a moment every time he made a lunge at her with his sharp bill.

92. Colaptes auratus. - Flickers are seldom much in evidence
in autumn about our place at Concord. This year they seemed less
common than usual for during the entire month of September I
noted the species scarce more than a dozen times and saw 
in all not to exceed twenty birds of which more or less were
doubtless met with on more than one occasion thus reducing the
actual total number. On the 21st [September 21, 1913] one was seen at the farm,
another in Birch Field then together in Bensen's pasture.
No evidence of any flight from regions further north was
obtained. The very latest date of observation was September 30 [September 30, 1913]
when a single bird was seen at the Farm. About 5 P.M.
on September 7 [September 7, 1913] I was passing beneath an apple tree in which
a pair of Flickers reared their brood last spring when a [male]
showed his head at the hole, looking out and down at me
calmly. No doubt he was intending to spend the night there.

93. Ceryle alcyon. - Seldom visiting the river this autumn
I did not note many Kingfishers. Indeed my field book
records only four in all, of which Gilbert [Robert A. Gilbert] saw one at Ball's 
Hill on September 1 [September 1, 1913] and I then near it on October 5 [October 5, 1913].

94. Coccyzus erythropthalmus. But one autumnal record - that
of a bird which I saw on September 5 [September 5, 1913] flying from tree 
to tree in our apple orchard at the Farm & identified positively.