CONCORD 
The Farm. 
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[spent the forenoon and the latter part of the after¬ 
noon at the Farm. The high, raw wind silenced the birds 
and drove them to the densest covers so that I saw and heard 
but few and those of the commonest kinds. Driving to 
Concord at noon and on the return drive in the afternoon I 
Large 
flock of 
Red-wiings 
Sharp-shin 
Hawk 
Canada 
Nuthatch 
eating suet. 
Spring 
flight-call 
of Cow-bird 
Bluebird® s 
love notes 
saw only a few Robins and an immense flock of Red—winged 
Blackbirds (at least 100), apparently all males. They were 
in the top of a white oak and all singing at once, making a 
prodigious noise. At the Keyes’ I saw a female Sharp- 
shinned Hawk fly from one of the large spruces bearing what 
looked like a small bird in its talons. 
Miss Marion Keyes tells me that a Red-billed Nuthatch 
has been one of the most constant as well as the very tamest 
of the birds which have visited her suet the past winter 
and spring. It flew into one of the chambers through an 
open window the other day and she caught it in her hand with 
but slight difficulty. 
Noted the spring flight call of the Cow-bird as phee- 
g.^. se - te-de, a long-drawn, somewhat reedy and rather musical 
whistle.] 
Repeatedly of late I have heard a male Bluebird 
warbling to its mate in tones exquisitely fcoft and tender 
and so low as to be audible only a few yards away. Among 
the ordinary notes it interpolates a fine, wiry, whining 
sound not unlike the preliminary notes of the Ruby-crowned 
Kinglet's song. 
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