NORTH FREEDOM, 
Tonight I heard a young robin learning to 
sing. It made a rather deeper note than the 
parent. 
There was one egg in the cedar waxwings 
nest. The English have formed a roost in 
Dockham’s trees. They were very noisy. 
July 21, 1900 - Saturday . 
This afternoon I went down in the fields. 
Mr. .'FLske had mowed his meadow and a flock of 8 
or 10 meadowlarks were feeding in it. They 
flew up from in under rry feet like/a Quail. 
By the ditch near the woods I scared up a bird. 
It appeared very much excited. I looked around 
and up flew a female cowbird and a young bird 
of some kind together. The cowbird had 
probably been watching it feed. I followed the 
old bird for some and at last got a good look 
at it. It was a vesper sparrow that had lost 
its tail and the new one was about 1 inch too 
short yet. S aw some catbirds feeding on wild 
rasberrys. 
That brown thrashers nest was empty and it 
was tilted to one side. By a thick clump of 
hazel bushes a flock of young quail flew up. 
The old one called and clucked till they all 
flew and then took wing herself. Some lit in 
a tree but I did not see them till they flew. 
Their bodies were about as big as a robins. 
Saw a catbird flycatching in the edge of the 
woods, along with several wood pewee’s. 
A family of song sparrows flew out of a 
brushpile at my approach. This species and the 
Maryland yeilowthroat sang often. 
Across the river quail whistled. 
