Concord, Mass
1909.
May 26
(No.2)
  About 8 o' clock this morning I heard the Snipe drum
three or four times as I was standing near the cabin.
The sound came very faintly to my ears but I made
it out distinctly, nevertheless. The bird was evidently flying
over the middle (or perhaps the western end) of Great
Meadow. I wish I could be here later to ascertain
whether or no he stays on but this will probably be
my very last chance to hear him as I am not likely
to return for several weeks. There can be little doubt,
I think, that he is suited for the season and
preparing to breed if, indeed, his mate be not already
sitting on her eggs somewhere out in the meadows
over which he makes his humming serenades.
Wilson's Snipe still drumming
  We found a House Wren to-day on the Ritchie Place.
He was in full song about 11 A. M. in an apple tree
in the middle of the grassfield near the apple cellar.
