Morning drive
1891 
April 16
no. 2
Mass.
Cambridge - Watertown - Belmont.) the grove. Saw nothing 
of the Sparrow Hawks or Wood Ducks and listened 
in vain for the Mockingbird. 
  Next around Payson Park and down the steep 
hill to Fresh Pond. Two more Golden crests in 
spruces in front of a house and a Chipper singing 
in the pear orchard. Robins everywhere. One Bluebird 
warbling. Cow-birds chattering.
 Three White-bellied Swallows flying over Fresh 
Pond close to the water. A number of Crow 
blackbirds in maples in the flooded swamp
near the Tudor place. Drove around the  
latter and visited the Sparrow Hawk's nest. The 
male sitting on a branch a few trees off. Female 
not seen. Colaptes in the top of a 
tall stone pipe funnel attached to an ice house 
sitting on the rim just under the smoke cap 
"shouting" at frequent intervals. 
  The elms are now in full blossom and the 
grass is green nearly everywhere. no native birds 
except Robins have as yet settled on any place 
in Cambridge. Saw a Hermit Thrush in the 
garden yesterday and a Chickadee visits one 
every few days, whistling cheerily. The tiresome 
House Sparrows fill the air with their clamor 
from daylight until dark. No Bluebirds or 
Song Sparrows have come within sight or hearing 
this year and I have no Juncos or 
Fox sparrows. (Two Juncos came into my garden 
about an hour after the above was written)