Concord, Mass.
1910
May 20
(No 2)
[May 20, 1910]

Abundance of Robins at Farm

  Robins are unusually numerous about the farm house but
strangely silent. Not once have I heard more than one
singing at any one time and during some days I
have failed to hear even one; yet yesterday & to-day I
have found no less than seven new nests within 100 yards
of the house on six of which I saw birds sitting. Five
of these nests are in leafy apple trees; the other two
are on the front of the house at its opposite ends and
hover only about 25 feet apart, on cornices just under the
projecting eaves. One nest has three eggs, the other three
or four young about a week old. I have seen the old
birds on both nests at the same time, or rather one was
on just as the other was flying off, which comes to the same 
thing. I doubt if there is a single Robin's nest anywhere
in the woods on the farm nor do I know of one at
Ball's Hill. The Jays have taught the Robins a bitter lesson
of late years & they now cling closely to the neighbourhood of man.

On May 22 I
found two more nests
one with young, the other with
bird sitting, both in young
pines in front of Bungalow
only 30 ft. apart. I now
know of eight nests behind our
house & in front, in space of 1 acre or less.