Concord, Mass.
1910.
May 26
(No 2)
[May 26, 1910]
  Where the men were spraying the large elms in front of
the barn this morning the pair of nuthatches were greatly
disturbed flying close about them & calling loudly. Harry Adams
examined the nest and reported that he could see several young
birds in it. The hole enters directly in from the upper
side of a horizontal branch as thick as a man's thigh &
then runs back nearly level for a distance of about 12 inches.
Both old birds carried food into it after the men had gone.
  Visited a Field Sparrow's nest with 5 eggs found
yesterday by Gilbert. It is in a little red cedar on the
knoll at the Ritchie place about 12 inches above the ground.
I do not remember ever finding one in a cedar before.

Robins with young

  The young in one of the Robins' nests on the front of
our house were out of the nest in the locust trees to-day.
The other Robin has hatched her young. It was pretty
to see her fondling them this morning as she sat on the nest.
Rising slightly she would peep beneath & thrust her bill in
under her breast at the same time calling cac-cac-cac very
like a Blackbird (i.e. Agelaius). I do not recall ever having a
Robin make this sound before.