1891
May 17
Afternoon on Rock Meadow.
Mass.
Belmont . - Clear with a cold N.W. wind which died away
at sunset, the night still and frosty with a young moon.
  Met Bolles by appointment at the Chenery trotting park
at 2.30, driving up and sending the horse back.
A single Barn Swallow so pale as to look perfectly white
beneath was skimming the turf within the enclosure.
  We tramped the old orchard where the House Wrens & 
Created Flycatchers bred last year but saw no traces
of either. Found a Flicker's nest completed but empty.
The entrance was about 5 ft. above the ground and
measured 3 1/2 inches (vertically) by 3 1/4 in. (horizontally).
[margin]Flicker's nest[/margin]
In a wet hollow among young swamp oaks found
a Black-throated Blue Warbler, a Red-start and a
Nashville Warbler. The first-named was the only
migrant seen to-day. The Nashville was singing.
There were some wild apple trees in fullest boom on
the edge of the oaks.
[margin]Only one migrant[/margin]
  We next passed through a tract of thinly growing
cedars and across an open pasture to the deep
glen above Brown's. [deleted]which was[/deleted] The pastures were
nearly barren of birds and we saw only two or three,
including a Grass Finch and King bird. In the
glen a Brown Thrasher was singing continuously but
there seemed to be nothing else despite the attraction of the cloud-
like masses of wild apple blossoms and the shelter
which the place afforded from the chill wind.
A Cooper's Hawk passed over us at a high rate of 
speed. The outcry of a Kingbird first called our
attention to him.
[margin[Cooper's Hawk[/margin]
  The swamp north of Prospect St. did not contain
a single bird as far as we could discover and