Concord, Mass.
1910
May 15
(No 4)
[May 15, 1910]

A [male] Hermit in full song &
another bird clucking, in Birch Field at evening

  As I was returning from the Farm about seven o'clock
this evening I was not a little surprized as well as
delighted to hear a Hermit thrush in full, continuous song
in Birch field or rather in the larger trees which border it
on the south side near the spring. As I stood listening
to his glorious music another Hermit began clucking on
the other side of the wall out among the birches. There can
be no question that this was not the singer for his liquid
bars continued to come from the deeper woods of old trees
all the while that the clucking was coming from the birches
in the opening. I cannot help hoping that the presence of 
these Thrushes here, with one in song, at so late a date,
means that they are a mated pair which have settled for
 the summer in what is really a haunt admirably
adopted for a breeding ground.
  Two Veeries sang near Ball's Hill this evening.