1893
March 14
(No 2)
Cambridge, Mass.
  Although I failed to hear Bluebirds during my drive
they nevertheless arrived in force this morning. Denton
heard three or four at Wellesley this morning and
Faxon and Hoffmann saw & heard no less than six at
Arlington. Faxon tells me that at least two and he
thinks three of his birds were females accompanied by their
mates. His past experience is that the first Bluebirds
to arrive are usually paired. This is the exact reverse of
what I have observed. 
[margin]Arrival of
Bluebirds
in force[/margin]
  Faxon reports two male Red-winged Blackbirds at
Arlington, fresh arrivals he concludes from the fact that
they were in a place where he has never seen the species
in winter. A flock of seven Red-wings, all males
in good black plumage, spent the past Dec. and the
early part of January in the swamps near Pout Pond
Cambridge. For a period of nearly six weeks in January
and February they were apparently absent but they
reappeared February 26th in the same place. Where could
they have spent the interim? The entire Atlantic slope
southward as far as Virginia has been buried under
an unusual depth of snow most of the time and
the cold has been severe and unbroken. 
[margin]Red wings
wintering
at Pout Pond[/margin]