C01I CORD. 
1899 
April 24 
JjSpent the forenoon at Ball's Hill. In the afternoon 
went to the Barrett farm — by canoe as far as Davis's 
Hill. 
Black Ducks 
Pine Warbler 
building; 
nest 
Hermit 
Thrush 
singing in 
Barrett woods 
Early this morning a pair of Black Ducks and a 
little later a single bird pa. sed the hill, flying high 
in a southerly direction. Surely these must be local birds]^ 
After 8 A. M. a female Pine Warbler made several 
visits to the cabin in search of nesting material. She 
tugged persistently but ineffectually at some twine which 
was tied to an oak and picked up and carried off a little 
oakum from the calking of our log walls. She flew to the 
crest of the hill, where the male was singing as usual. 
The same thing occurred last spring at about this time. 
Apparently the male Pine Warbler does not accompany his 
mate when she is looking for nesting material. 
A Hermit Thrush was singing gloriously but sotto 
voce in a dense thicket of young white pines on the 
Barrett farm this afternoon. Rarely have I heard a finer 
performance although at a distance of thirty yards I 
could.only just hear the lower notes. I estimated the 
distance by the bird's cluck for I did not see him. In 
the little opening where I was standing a pair of 
Antiopfc Butterflies were toying with one another in the 
warm sunshine. 
