CONCORD 
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^ CONCORD. 
1902 
AuA'Ust 24 
I^^^rdie, Gilbert and I went to Concord by electrics, 
starting at 9.30. A Red-eyed Vireo was singing fairly well 
BiiuTs in 
near the West Bedford station. The woods about the cabin 
sQn^ 
were as silent as the grave and we saw no bird there save an 
Oven-bird, 
Chimney 
Sv^if t s 
Soon after entering the cabin we heard a Swift rumble 
in the chimney. Looking up the flue I saw the v;ings and 
tail of a Swift projecting over the edge of the nest. There 
were really two birds -- a young and an old one. The latter 
soon fle’w out, leaving the young bird which appears to be 
Youn^ 
nearly full-grown. It was hatched between July 27 — when we 
remains in 
saw all three eggs in the nest — and August 3, when one egg 
nest over 
had hatched; the other two were infertile. Hence it has 
three weeks 
already been in the nest more than three weeks. No doubt the 
not injured 
mother bird was feeding it vfnen I first looked up,the flue 
by fire 
to-dai/^but, as I have already said, I could see only a tail 
and pair of wings. We have had a good fire in this chimney 
several times since the young Swift hatched. 
Visit 
At 3 P. M, Purdie and I started for the Farm. On the 
the Farm 
way we saw no birds save a flock of Chickadees. At the 
Farm I heard an Oriole singing feebly and Townees, Brown 
Thrashers, a Cet-bird, and Soiig Sparrow chirping just before 
sunset. 
