June 14, 1900 - Thursday . 
This afternoon a brood of white-breasted 
nuthatches were in our yard. The young sat 
still and let the old ones feed them. They 
lacked the black on the neck. Saw one fed on 
measuring worm. The bills were shorter than those 
of the old ones. 
Saw the remainder of that flock of bluejays 
up by Randall’s tonight. There were 4 of them. 
June 15, 1900 - Friday. 
This morning after breakfast went over in 
Hackett’s woods. I found no nests. Redstarts, 
least flycatchers, vireos and other small birds 
were there in abundance. A pair of Indigo bunt¬ 
ings were much excited about something. I could 
not see what it was. I heard them while quite a 
distance off. Went over to that Indigo bunting's 
ne3t. There was nothing in it. The lining had 
been pulled up a little. I anylyzed it. The 
foundation and outer part was composed of elm 
oak and maple leaves. Buckwheat straw, birch 
and basswood bark, coarse grass, weedstems, 
horsehair, cobwebs, elm seeds, maple btt’d cover¬ 
ings, basswood seeds ^v/ith leaf stems of round 
sticky tights, petioles and skeleton leaves, 
small snuff weed stems, small piece rotten wood, 
seeds, rootlets, tag-alder flower, newly opened 
buds. 
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The lining was weed stems, lawn grass v/ith 
seeds, long black, white and brown horsehairs, 
coarse grass, rootlets, small oatstraw, climbers 
of creeping plant, black and white rootlets, and 
a flow'er cluster of some weed. The greater part 
was rootlets. 
Then I went home. 
Looked in that phoebe’s nest by Lockham’s barn. 
It contained 2 young covered with gray down and 
2 eggs. 
The robins are using their nest for a second 
brood. The female is on it most of the time. 
