Decline of 
sieging. 
The singing season is waning fast, the falling-off 
being appreciable from day to day and very marked from week 
to week. Along the river this afternoon I heard only Robins, 
Song and Swamp Sparrows, Yellow Warblers, one Grass Finch, 
two Meadow Larks, three Red-wings, two Short-billed Marsh 
Wrens, and a Phoebe. The last wa„s singing only listlessly 
and at intervals — in the trees in front of my cabin. I 
believe that it is the same bird which I heard there in 
the early spring and which, failing to secure a mate, finally 
left me. 
Robins 
Red-wing s* 
roost 
The woods behind Ball's Hill are silent to-day save 
for the songs of a Robin and Pine Warbler. 
I saw Robins in small flocks in my blueberry swamp 
and among the maples at the foot of Holden's Hill. At the 
latter place they seemed to be collecting to roost (a little 
before sunset). 
As I came up river the air was filled with Red¬ 
wings and Barn Swallows flying about in every direction as 
if assembling from distant points to pass the night. The 
Red-wings' roost at Beaver Dam Rapid has been broken up by 
the cutting of the grass. 
Young Martins 
Lumbers of Purple Martins again spent the day in 
the tall trees near the swimming place. The broods seen there 
yesterday were united into one flock to-day. I counted ten 
birds in one tree,all young. The flock took wing and v/ent 
off to the south-west as I was passing on my way home. 
