Cistothorus stellaris - Curvivostra Am [Curvirostra americana]
MASS. (Middlesex Co.) [Middlesex County, Massachusetts]
1876.
Aug 4 [August 4, 1876] Am still closely confined by lameness
occasioned by the unfortunate injury of the
hip contracted at the lake. The weather through
July was excessively oppressive - the very
worst of dog day heat continued through
three or four weeks without cessation.
About July 25 [July 25, 1876] there was a change &
since then we have experienced a
delightful season - uniformly cool night
with clear dry and not uncomfortably
warm days. Have done no collecting
at all, for obvious reasons, since my
return home. In my daily drives
how noticed but few facts worthy
of record. Cistothorus stellaris is now
in full song and undoubtedly incubation
is well underway with them. I hear
them at all times of day when
I visit Block island meadows or
the willow shaded road above Belmont.
Hummers have become numerous within
the last week and I doubt not that
many of them are Northern birds. Nearly
every night I hear night herons calling
to each other as the [they] circle over the
Brighton marshes and on several occasions
I have seen them leave Prof. Lowells pines
at dusk. A few are also roosting in
what is left of the old pine swamp.
Very few birds are singing now. The cicadas
are well under way and crickets commenced
singing several weeks since but have not
reached their prime yet. This morning
I saw three Curvivostra Am [Curvirostra americana] which flew
over our place calling loudly as they always
do when on wing