Concord, Mass.
1908
March 14 
to
June 1
after the 1st of May. The female parent of the nest on the Ritchie place
seemed to perform the whole work of caring for the young but this
was shared equally by both birds at the nest in our garden to 
which they came alternately with food for their ravenous young. When
these left the nest the parents went off with them and did not
return but at the Ritchie place I saw the male perched on the box
and the female in the act of entering it on June 19th so I infer
they must have laid in it a second time this season.
Summer resident Birds.
  Chickadee: - We had fewer Chickadees than usual this spring,
not above three or four pairs on my entire place, I fear. I found
only one nest - in the apple tree that stands at the rear of our house
and shades its roof. The birds began excavating their holes on April 24
and finished it practically by the 28th. They began carrying nesting
material on May 4 and continued to do so at least up to the 9th.
Soon after this they deserted the nest, possibly because it was flooded
by a heavy rain (on the 14th) for it entered straight downward
where an upright stem had been sawed off.
  White bellied Nuthatch. -