1910.
June 18
(No 4)
[June 18, 1910]

Brushwood Country
Towhees abundant
Colony of Hermit Thrushes

over. The ground is so cumbered with lopped off branches
as to be impassible except by means of the cart paths
and ancient wood roads along which one may walk with
perfect ease. I traversed several of them this afternoon.
Over a tract at least 1000 acres in extent there are few
trees standing which rise to a greater height than ten or
fifteen feet but sprout growth one to three years of age has
sprung up everywhere through the wreckage left by the
wood choppers. As I had anticipated would be the case
the entire region literally swarmed with Towhees & Chestnut-
sided Warblers and I heard one or two Maryland Yellow-throats
although the land is elevated & exceedingly dry. I had not
thought of Hermit Thrushes but they were there in numbers
equal to anything one might expect to find in the most
favored parts of northern Maine & New Hampshire. At one
time I heard three males in full song and in walking
half a mile I must have heard as many as four or five
all told. One bird was a superb singer. Without doubt
the bird (or birds) I have noted occasionally on the Farm of
late came from this colony lying less than a mile to the westward.