CONCORD 
1909 
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No bird 
w ave at 
Concord 
Yellow- 
t hroat 
singing 
on ne st 
Wilson 
Snipe 
still 
\Purdie and I spent the entire forenoon in the woods, 
walking to the Farm by way of Da.vis Hill, Birch Island, Green 
Field and Birch Field, returning via Holden’s Hill. The 
only north-bound migrant9 we saw were an Usnea Warbler, 
a Water Thrush and a White-throated Sparrow. If there was 
anything like the flight here yesterday morning that there 
was at Cambridge, the birds must have passed on or scattered 
about before we arrived late yesterday afternoon. The 
chances are, however, that no such flight visited the 
Concord RegionTj 
While at the Farm this forenoon, we heard a Yellow- 
throated Vireo singing loudly and steadily in the elm 
just behind the wood-shed. A moment later I discovered him 
on the ne st which was hung in the fork of a short branch 
that left the trunk some 15 or 20 feet above the ground. He 
song for several minutes without moving anything save his 
head which was raised high and rolled about from side to 
side after the manner of his kind. The female meanwhile 
was quietly feeding among the branches only a few yards off. 
8 o’clock this morning I heard the Snipe 
drum three or four times as I was standing near the cabin. 
The sound came very faintly to my ears but I made it out 
distinctly, nevertheless. The bird was evidently flying over 
the middle (or perhaps the western end) of Great Meadow. 
I wish I could be here later to asceftain whether or no 
he stays on but this will probably be my very last chance 
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