Morning drive
1891
May 10
(No. 2)
Mass.
Cambridge - Belmont - Waltham. - Spinus tristis, one;
Spizella socialis, two; [?] [?] , one;
and Empidonax minimus, one.  I do not remember
ever noting the Nashville Warbler or Soitary Vireo in
this part of Cambridge before and the Least Flycatcher 
has not been heard here before this season.
  Later in the day an Oriole was fluting in my 
elms and Chimney Swifts flying overhead. I also
heard a passing Barn Swallow and there was a
small Thrush, which I could not identify but which 
was probably Wilson's , in my lilacs.  Besides these
there were, of course, Robins, making in all
fifteen species seen or heard near my house in the
course of a few hours. The Grosbeak is doubtless my
old friend of the past three years. He arrived this
year on the 8th when I heard him singing at 
or about sunrise.
  My horse was sent up at 9.15 this morning and 
I took a rather long drive with [?];, through
Waverley and Belmont by way of the Willows to
the cross-road just east of the Lower Pine, [?]
south to the Prospect Hill, and home past the 
Lyman place and Clematis Brook station.
It was a rare day in the very food tide of
blossoming orchards and luxuriant fields of
grass as yet unspoiled by dust. The cherry trees
are out of bloom, the pear orchards in fullest
bloom, the apple trees first coming into bloom.
There were birds in great numbers everywhere,
but in the great numbers in the Willows and
in the oaks near the Lyman place. In the