COi: CORD 
I came to Concord late yesterday afternoon to stay 
at the cabin until to-morrow. Roland Heyward spent last 
night and most of to-day with me. jWe walked to Holden's Hill 
last evening. This forenoon we went to the Farm by way of 
Davis's Hill, Birch Island and Lawrence’s wood-road, 
returning via Birch Field, Davis's Swamp and Pine Ridge. 
Birds were singing freely all day and we noted a 
great many of most of the species which pass the summer here, 
but all the north-bound migrants seem to have departed. 
Red-eyed Vireos are apparently scarce; we heard only two 
or three during our long tramp. Then also but few Cat-birds 
even along the river and the only Redstarts we noted were 
one singing near the cabin and another in the elms about 
the house at the Farm. The Crested Flycatcher was shouting 
in the orchard and there were as many Orioles, Chippies, 
Robins, etc. there as usual. The Hummingbird’s nest in the 
elm looked all right but there was no bird 6n it. We saw 
one, however, darting away from a flower bed in the garden. 
The young Phoebes have left the nest under the 
eaves in the old barn and their father was in full song 
again. The nest in the new barn cellar still had the four 
cold eggs and is evidently deserted. The young in the nest 
in the stone horse-shed at Ball's Hill are two-thirds grown 
and partly feathered. A Phoebe was sitting on four eggs 
in a nest in the stone boat-house across the river 
yesterday afternoon^] 
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