Warbler Day. Concord.
A few apple trees in nearly full bloom at last
Ther [Thermometer] Saturday, May 26, 1917 Wea [Weather]
Bay-breast [Bay-breasted Warbler] & Tennessee Warblers. Fine
Brilliantly clear with strong cool westerly wind.
  First Indigo Birds (Male) Whippoorwill (male [in full song] at eve)
Yellow-bellied Flycatcher (1 calling, Birch F. [Birch Field])
Wood Pewee [in full song] ( Flints Br. [Flint's Bridge], Dexter Bros.)
  Spent earlier forenoon rambling, gun in hand,
through woodland stretching fr. Farm to Davis Hill.
Shot a Blue Jay & missed 2 Crows (one perched near
nest). Heard a Hawk of some kind crying cree-cree-cree
in shrill, feeble tones near nest in Prescott pines.
Warblers scattered everywhere in sheltered, sunny
spots. 2 Bay breasts [Bay-breasted Warbler] ([males]), 2 Canadian [Canada Warbler] ([males]) & 2 or 3
Magnolias [Magnolia Warbler]. Others of various common kinds.
  Lewis & Smith Dexter came down to dine with me.
At 4.30 P.M. we all went to Birch Field. & had 
a wondrous experience there with migrant Warblers.
At first there was apparently on a few scattered ones
but they kept increasing until the entire wooded
area of pines & birches seemed alive with them.
Bay breasted [Bay-breasted Warbler] & Tennessee Warblers outnumbered all
other kinds. Of former we counted 10 [males] together &
must have seen 20 in all; of latter we saw 5
together in one birch, 3 in another place, 2 in a
third place, probably enough more scattering
single ones to equal 20 birds in all. Not
one of either species sang once. Besides these
we saw Magnolia [Magnolia Warbler], Blackburnian [Blackburnian Warbler], Nashville [Nashville Warbler],
Black throated Green [Black-throated Green Warbler], Usnea Warblers in
lesser numbers, a Redstart & 2 Yellow rumps [Yellow-rumped Warbler].
Heard a Yellow-bellied Flycatcher near at hand
in dense young pines. 2 Swainson's Thrushes seen.
Most of the Warblers very tame, but restless.
They fed chiefly in gray birches.
  At 7.43 P.M. heard a Whippoorwill N.W [northwest]
of house & saw a Woodcock fly low over
flower garden, across road, into Berry Pasture.

Concord 5 Cape May Warblers. 3 Golden wings [Golden-winged Warbler]
one of which was appar. H. leucobronchialis [Helminthophila leucobronchialis].
Ther [Thermometer] Sunday, May 27, 1917 Wea [Weather] Stormy
Dark cloudy & more or less foggy with light, cool
easterly wind & incessant fine rain.
  Short walk after breakfast. Tennessee Warbler [male in full song]
2 ad [adult male] Redstarts & [male in full song] House W. [House Wren], near Pulpit Rock,
Bicknell's Thrush in Cedar Park, These all the
north-bound migrants seen or heard. None at all
in Birch Field & none anywhere near our house
through day. Spent most of it in house,
writing letters.
  Started off again at 5.30 P.M. Walked up
road past fields in which 3 Bobolinks were
singing & turned into lane heading to Mason's
back pasture where I found hundreds of very
beautiful young red cedars & much ground
juniper. Heard there in full song a Veery,
a Field Sparrow, 3 Thrushes, 3 Towhees.
A Hermit [Hermit Thrush] singing gloriously further westward.
2 Swainson Thrushes [Swainson's Thrush] calling.
  Norton reports by tel. [telephone] this eve. [evening] that he &
the Robbins have had a memorable bird day.
  They found 4 Cape May Warblers in cedars at
Sted Buttricks place & another near [?] house;
3 Golden Wing Warblers [Golden-winged Warbler] (one appar. leucobronchialis)
& a Wood Thrush in Estabrook woods.
They also saw 7 or 8 Bay-breasts [Bay-breasted Warbler].