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Belmont, Mass
1901
Mar. 24
(2)

— Birds — Nine species observed at one spot.

An interesting bird episode on School St.
Belmont, north of Washington St. on the slope
of the hill where we paused to see & hear
what we could. Across the field on our right,
perched in the top of a large apple tree, sat a
Meadow Lark singing most exquisitely. As I
looked at him through my glass. I could plainly
see him open wide his mandibles as he sang.
He did not move his body. A hundred yards or
less to the left, sat a Northern Shrike in the
top of a large elm. After remaining there
motionless several minutes he swooped
off on a downward curve, passed close in
front of us and alighted in a small ap-
ple tree in which were about a dozen
Bronzed Grackles & Redwings. The Shrike was
but two or three feet from a Grackle & a Redwing.
Some the birds flew off and left him alone.
The field about this apple-tree was occupied by
a flock of forty Robins and a dozen or more
Grackles & Redwings hopping about, feeding.
We heard a Flicker [sh??ting], a Bluebird
singing and saw two or three Crows.
That made nine species that we
observed while sitting in the buggy for
about ten minutes. I omitted from the
list a Song Sparrow —

4
Belmont, Mass
1901
Mar. 24
(2)

— Birds — Nine species observed at one spot.

An interesting bird episode on School St.
Belmont, north of Washington St. on the slope
of the hill where we paused to see & hear
what we could. Across the field on our right,
perched in the top of a large apple tree, sat a
Meadow Lark singing most exquisitely. As I
looked at him through my glass. I could plainly
see him open wide his mandibles as he sang.
He did not move his body. A hundred yards or
less to the left, sat a Northern Shrike in the
top of a large elm. After remaining there
motionless several minutes he swooped
off on a downward curve, passed close in
front of us and alighted in a small ap-
ple tree in which were about a dozen
Bronzed Grackles & Redwings. The Shrike was
but two or three feet from a Grackle & a Redwing.
Some the birds flew off and left him alone.
The field about this apple-tree was occupied by
a flock of forty Robins and a dozen or more
Grackles & Redwings hopping about, feeding.
We heard a Flicker [sh??ting], a Bluebird
singing and saw two or three Crows.
That made nine species that we
observed while sitting in the buggy for
about ten minutes. I omitted from the
list a Song Sparrow —