1893
May 2  
Concord to Cambridge,  Mass.

                                                                               
Cloudy with fine mist-like rain times. A cool(but
not chilly ) day.

At 9.30 A.M.  I started for Cambridge in the covered\
buggy, G/// accompanying me. We took the turnpike and
turning into the old lane near the ancient house with the
big elms drove down nearly to the N.W. corner of Sandy Pond where
we tied the horse and ??? a number of papers and black
finches. A Partridge drummed at short intervals near us
and there were heard Yellow - [?] Warblers flitting about
a swamp.
It was noon when in [?] stac [?]   on our way so
we stopped at a farm house to find the [?].  After this
??? had been performed we drove slowly on adding more
Bir [?] to our load which half filled the buggy and reaching
Cambridge at 4 P.M.  Few birds were seen or heard. Only
our  Th [?]  distance and but one Meadow Lark
in Man [?]

On the old place in Cambridge  I heard singing at
evening only three species of birds,  Robins, a Purple Finch,
and a Chipping Sparrow.