Cambridge, Mass.
1893
(No. 2)
March 18 
  Faxon found ten Red-winged Blackbirds in      
in the swamps late yesterday afternoon and heard
them singing for the first time this season.
Others were in full song there this morning. This
makes it clear that migrants have arrived for
for the flock of wondering birds has regularly
and invariably consisted of just seven individuals.
[margin]Red wings[/margin]
  I saw two Red Squirrels in the Fresh Pond Grove        
yesterday and on this morning beside another
in Gray's woods. On the 14th, a very warm, still,
Sunny day, i saw two in our lindens, two
in the grove on the C.C. Little place (just beyond
the Nichols, and one in the elms in front
of Mr Lowett's. They are probably more numerous
in this part of Cambridge now than they
were thirty years ago but the Gray Squirrels
are much less numerous. The latter, however, still
inhabit Mt. Auburn, the Winchester place (now
a part of Cambridge Cemetery) and the deciduous
woods on the south side of Fresh Pond.
[margin]Squirrels[/margin]
  Denton reports a large Otter seen about a week
ago at Wellesley by a sportsman who knows the
animal well. It was on the ice in Charles river
and was eating something, apparently a fish.
Otters have been seen in Concord River up
to within three or four years & were not
uncommon there ten or twelve years ago.
[margin]Otter at
Wellesley[/margin]