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Concord, Mass.
1916.
April 4
to
July 9

Gray Squirrel plunders Robin's nest.

is furnished by the testimony of my foreman, Maxwell C.
Burbank, who actually saw a Squirrel take several eggs from
the nest of a Robin built on a rafter under the piazza roof
of our Bungalow at the farm. He failed to notice that the
Squirrel ate any of their contents but this probably happened
for his wife afterwards examined the shells when they had
been dropped on the piazza floor and found them almost
wholly free from either yolk or albumen.

Red Squirrels.

  There were only a very few Red Squirrels in our neighborhood
this spring. I saw or heard one occasionally among the red pines
near the Ritchie place and also in Pulpit Rock woods. They
must have bred there or elsewhere with unusual success, however,
for their young appeared numerously throughout our woodland
before the close of summer.
  Chipmunks occurred in something like their old time abundance,
especially in the immediate neighborhood of our house where