Concord, Mass.
1911.
June 16
(No 2)
[June 16, 1911]

Birds noted at the Farm.

  Yesterday & to-day the conditions were favorable for
free singing of birds and their music was incessant and
delightful everywhere about our farm buildings & in
the neighboring thickets and woodland. Noting only such
birds as were seen or heard within 100 yards of our house
I made the following list: Bluebird pair building second
nest in box front of house,
Robin 3 [in full song]; cat-bird 2 [in full song] 1 seen; Nuthatch, collecting food & taking
it into big elm by road; Yellow Warbler, 2 [in full song] in garden;
Chestnut-sided Warbler, 1 [in full song]; Redstart 3 [in full song], from barn along lane;
Oven bird, 2 [in full song];  Red-eyed vireo, 2 [in full song], nest 2 eggs & 1 Cowbirds' in
orchard; Solitary Vireo 1 [in full song] near barn; Yellow-throated Vireo, 1 [in full song];
Scarlet Tanager 1 [in full song] near house; Cedar bird 2; Tree Swallow nest
with young on shed, Tree Swallow nest with young in garden, (Tree Swallow nest with young Ritchie's place);
Barn Swallows, pair feeding young in nest in our barn;
Goldfinch 1 [in full song]; Purple Finch 1 [in full song]; Song Sparrow 1 [in full song] in front of
house; Chippy 4 or 5; 1 Rose breasted Grosbeak [in full song]; 1 Indigo Bird [in full song];
 Crested Flycatcher, pair feeding