as numerous this year as I have ever known them to be. 
The Phoebe at the Farm was singing rather freely 
this morning. I think the female must have built a second 
nest (her first was apparently deserted soon after it was 
. half 
finished) in the bam cellar, but as the cellar is/full of 
water I am unable to investigate the matter fully. 
In the afternoon, Walter and I went through the 
Blakeman woods and over Pine Ridge where we found a female 
Bay-breasted Warbler feeding in the same cluster of pitch 
pines where I saw a female last year. 
Early this morning we heard Black-polls singing 
all about Ball’s Hill and saw five or six males and two 
females. 
An Alder Flycatcher in the submerged belt of trees 
and bushes on the opposite side of the river near the 
stone boat-house was exceedingly noisy from 7 to 8 A. M., 
uttering his harsh qui-witchy at short, regular intervals. 
A Redstart was beginning her nest this morning in 
the same fork of the same birch by the landing near the 
cabin where a nest was built two years ago. I saw one 
building in an app^e tree by the old well at the Farm on 
May 28. 
Cuckoos are pitifully scarce this year. Thus far, 
I have heard only three or four — all Black-bills. 
