Concord, Mass.
1915.
April, May
& June
(No 7)

Spring Bird list

1. Wood Thrush. A [male] in full song, 5-6 A.M., in the Run. I did not
hear him again nor was the species noted by, or reported to, me as occurring
on any other occasion elsewhere.

2. Wilson's Thrush. Single birds seen or heard calling at Farm on May 15 [May 15, 1915],
16 [May 16, 1915], 25 [May 25, 1915] & 26 [May 26, 1915]. One found dead on ground near our poultry yard in wire fence
on 18th [May 18, 1915]. Another singing faintly in Run on 22nd [May 22, 1915]. For the first time
in my experience none remained to breed anywhere in their accustomed 
haunts within ear-shot of our farm house although I did hear one 
calling near Barrett Spring on June 24 [June 24, 1915]. They were similarly absent from
Davis and Pine Park Swamps but two males were singing in Ball's Hill
Swamp and another bird calling near the cabin, on June 22 [June 22, 1915]. I thought
I heard the song of one coming from beyond our Berry Pastures on the
evening of the 11th [June 11, 1915] but was not sure of it.

3. Bicknell's Thrush. Two - both small birds - seen near Concord Village
on May 20 [May 20, 1915] by S.O. Dexter [Smith Owen Dexter].

4. Swainson's Thrush. One calling in Birch Field on May 10 [May 10, 1915], another in
Cedar Park on the 21st [May 21, 1915], a third seen in the Run on the 25th [May 25, 1915]. 
Also noted at Fairyland on the 20th [May 20, 1915] - by S.O. Dexter.

5. Hermit Thrush. No north-bound migrants met with. Our local breeding 
pair reoccupied their ancestral haunts in Birch field where I found
them oftenest in or very near a deep hollow filled with young pines, larches
and black spruces. I first saw one of them on April 14 [April 14, 1915] in neighboring
woods of large pines. The [male] was in full song 6-6.30 P. M. on the 19th [April 19, 1915] and
21st [April 21, 1915] but I did not hear him again that month or so much as once
during May. Both birds were seen together repeatedly in April & May when
they would come close about me, clucking and whining as if anxious
regarding eggs or young. The male resumed singing on June 22 [June 22, 1915] &