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1916

24. Black & Yellow Warbler. North-bound migrants passing in normal numbers
from May 12 to 27. Occurring singly for the most part and never more than
three or four in any one locality they frequented thickets of cedars, young
white pines, gray birches & mixed growths along the Run, also appearing
occasionally in more open places. I saw only one this spring in our blossoming
apple trees to which they have sometimes nested freely in former years.

25. Chestnut-sided Warbler. First noted on May 6 [May 6, 1916]. No obvious flight of
migrants bound further north. By the middle of the month our local breeding
birds had re-occupied all their accustomed haunts. After that a male was usually
to [be] heard singing on the brushy slope below the barn, another near the foot of the lane, two or three others across the road in the Berry Pasture. One of the latter birds removed in early June to the Forsythia thicket in front of
our house and I think nested there. Four males were heard singing along a
half mile of the old Bigelow Road on May 28 [May 28, 1916] and two at Davis Hill on 
June 29 [June 29, 1916]. I noted none at Ball's Hill this year.

26. Bay-breasted Warbler. The spring flight of Bay-breasts was neither
exceptionally heavy nor light this year. The first bird was met with in
Fairyland by Faxon & Robbins on May 20 [May 20, 1916]. On the 26th [May 26, 1916] I heard one singing
near our house at sunrise and later in the day noted three 3 [males] and 1 [female]
near Pulpit Rock with another male singing at noon near the head
of the Run. One was in the oaks behind our barn on the 27 [May 27, 1916] and again
on June 1 [June 1, 1916] - the latest record for the season.

27. Black-poll Warbler [Blackpoll Warbler]. Ever since (and including) the year 1914 there have
been comparatively few Black-polls* passing north or south through Concord
in spring or autumn. This spring I noted, personally, only seven in all,
a single male on May 20 [May 20, 1916], another on the 25th [May 25, 1916], a male and female on the 27th [May 27, 1916], a male on June 1 [June 1, 1916],
two males on June 2 [June 2, 1916]. Mr. Dexter reports hearing in Concord village or in
Fairyland, a male on May 16 [May 16, 1916], another on the 19th [May 19, 1916] and two on the 26th [May 26, 1916].