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Concord, Mass.
1916
April 4
to 
July 9

  For the most part our local-breeding birds reoccupied
their accustomed summer haunts in normal numbers and
variety but several species, including the Yellow Warbler,
Redstart, Yellow-throated Vireo and Baltimore Oriole,
failed, for the first time since I have owned October Farm,
to nest within its boundaries although appearing there
more or less often in May and June. We did not lack
the usual pair of Phoebees [Phoebe] in the barn cellar and of
Crested Flycatchers in the old apple orchard where
the latter birds reared a brood of young successfully, as
they nearly always do, in the dilapidated section of hollow
trunk first prepared for their occupancy ten or a dozen
years ago.
  Our deciduous woods, being now more or less completely
denuded of their foliage by Gypsy Moth & Forest Tent Caterpillars
in June & July, no longer harbor many summer birds of any kind