Concord, Mass.
1910.
June 19
(No 4)
[June 19, 1910]

Nest of a Red-wing Blackbird in a peculiar situation

  While Gilbert and I were at Ball's Hill this morning
he called my attention to a nest which he had just
seen a [male] red-winged Blackbird enter and then fly from,
a female being within a yard or two of it at the same
time. The [male] was singing near it when I saw it. It
looked like a Red-wing's nest but was built on the
horizontal branch of a white maple over our boat pit
and at least 15 feet above the water. The branch
was leafy at the end but not where the nest
rested on it. The nest was, indeed, as conspicuous
as that of a Robin. Recent heavy rains have flooded
most of the river meadows to the depth of a 
foot or more. This fact may account for the
peculiar situation of the nest just described if,
indeed, it be, as Gilbert & I think, a Red-wing's.
We could not examine it closely to-day.