25 June 1855 – 1 July 1855

Under E. Wood’s barn, a phcebe’s nest, with two birds ready to fly; also barn swallow’s nest lined with feathers, hemisphere or cone against side of sleeper; five eggs, delicate, as well as white-belked swallow’s.

C. has found a wood pewee’s nest on a horizontal limb of a small swamp white oak, ten feet high, with three fresh eggs, cream-colored with spots of two shades in a ring about large end. Have nest and an egg.

On river. Two red-wings’ nests, four eggs and three — one without any black marks. Hear and see young golden robins which have left the nest, now peeping with a peculiar tone. Shoals of minnows a half-inch long. Eel-grass washed up.

2 p. mM. — Thermometer north side of house, 95°; in river where one foot deep, one rod from shore, 82°.