Nest of 
Visiting the Carolina Dove's nest in the pines by 
Carolina 
the brook at Davis's Hill I found the bird on, and approached 
^joves 
within a few yards of her but did not frighten her off. She 
sat absolutely motionless with tail closed and raised, head 
held high and neck strongly arched thus * Her 
large dark eye was fixed on me and did not once wink while I 
was looking at her through my glass (two or three minutes). 
Wilson's Thrushes were singing freely, both in my swamp and 
Young Barn 
on Holden's Hill.; 
Barn Swallows have appeared on the river with 
Swallows 
their young since I last went down-stream. I counted no less 
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than seven broods to-day with 3, 3, 3, 3, 4, 4, and 5 young, 
respectively. The young of each brood were perched within 
,a few feet or inches of each other,usually on the leafy 
branch of a maple or willow low over the water but sometimes 
on a dead branch. The parents (both sexes) were feeding 
them largely if not wholly with small moths. When the parent 
bird approached, the latter would open its mouth wide and 
chatter loudly, at the same time quivering its wings. It 
usually rec^ved the moth in the tip of its bill and shallowed 
it at once. The parent never seemed to hesitate in its 
choice of the young bird which it afterwards fed but flew 
directly to one or other of the fluffy little group. Once 
I saw an old Warbler feed the same young bird three times 
in succession although four other young were huddled together 
not four feet off. 
