Nest of a 
Blackbird. 
in a peculiar 
situation 
seen a male Red-winged Blackbird enter and then fly from, 
a female being within a ya^rd or two of it at the same time. 
The male was singing near it when I saw it. It looked like 
a Red-wing’s nest but was built on the horizontal branch 
of a white maple over our boat pit and at least 15 feet 
above the water. The branch was leafy at the end but not 
where the nest rested on it. The nest was, indeed, as con¬ 
spicuous as that of a Robin, Recent heavy rains have 
flooded most of the river meadows to the depth of a foot 
or more. This fact may account for the peculiar situation 
of the nest just described if, indeed, it be, as Gilbert 
and I think, a Red-wing’s. We could not examine it closely 
to-day. 
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