1893 
March 14                                                                                         
Cambridge, Mass.      
Drive around Mt. Auburn
Clear and very warm for the season with now and then
a puff of east wind.
Early in theforennon I took a drive (on wheels) around
Mt. Auburn hoping to her Bluebirds & Song Sparrows but in
this I was disappointed. The snow has been wasted considerably
bu the wild weather of the past week and to-day it
melted very rapidly and areas of bare ground appeared
under the pines and on wind swept ridges in the fields.
  There were three Blue Jays in the trees along the avenue in                
front of the Minchester place and I heard others screaming
over several Blocks. Faxon saw a dozen or fifteen (seven
in one flock) at Arlington this morning and he is very
sure that most of them were migrants just arrived from
the South as they have been very scarce this winter.
[margin]Blue Jays  
arrive from 
the South[/margin]
  Among some evergreen in Mt. Auburn a flock of 8 to 10                                 
Tree Sparrows were flitting about, one bird singing brief
snatches of its wild melody every now & then.
[margin]Tree Sparrows[/margin]
  Twenty of thirty Crows were ranged along the edge of                              
a ditch in the salt marsh but I have seen quite as
many them before, the past winter. Faxon, however, thinks
that numbers which he observed flying high over
Arlington, towards the N., early this morning are migrating.
Crows migrating
  Denton heard three or four Song Sparrows in full song
at Wellesley this morning (he is sure that none
wintered thru) but Faxon & Hoffermann did not detect
one during a walk before breakfast over Arlington Heights.
[margin]Song Sparrows 
arrive & sing[/margin]