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(Hermit Thrush) lying between Fairyland and Walden Pond,
Mr. Dexter heard no less than four different males in full
song on April 24 [April 24, 1916]. He noted them repeatedly there late in
the season & others were reported to him as settled about
Fairhaven Bay. On May 28 [May 28, 1916] I heard two males along the
Bigelow Road, one near Hutchins Pond on north-east slope
of Punkatassett Hill [Punkatasset Hill], the other near the big "Bear" Oak.
The bird frequenting our woods in June was a fine singer
- better by far than any heard there in former years.
Apparently he had no mate which perhaps accounts for
shifting so far from place to place during the sighting season.

5. Robin. Throughout much of the township of Concord and
especially in and about the village, Robins seemed decidedly
more abundant this year than last, after settling to breed,
according to Mr. Dexter's observation. In and close about the
Farm their numbers were not apparently much increased
although scattered pairs occurred here and there in remoter
parts of our dense woodlands where I have seldom or never 
noted them at such a season before. At least five &
perhaps as many as seven or eight pairs nested within the 
limits of our cultivated grounds, mostly in apple trees, although
one nest was begun and deserted when half-finished, in our
wood shed and another completed and laid in under the roof 
of the front piazza at the Bungalow where a brood of young
were hatched and reared last year. They fared less well the present
season for on June 9 [June 9, 1916] a large Gray Squirrel destroyed all the eggs
and then tore out the lining of the nest. This Burbank claims 
to have actually witnessed. He thinks that the eggs were merely 
thrown down on the floor of the piazza but his wife, who was