1893
May 11
Concord, Mass.
  Clear and warmer even than yesterday. Entire forenoon
dead calm. Brisk S. to S.E. breeze in P.M. Night still,
clear and as warm as a midsummer night.
  I had supposed that this second intensely hot day
would bring a second migratory bird wave but the
rush evidently exhausted itself yesterday for when I
walked through Derby's lane this morning I found
nothing but such species as breed there and these
scattered about singly. Indeed the only northern bird
which I met with was a White crowned Sparrow,
doubtless the same bird noted yesterday for it was
in the same brush heap. A Yellow winged Sparrow, perhaps
the same seen yesterday, was singing in the field
west of the Buttricks. Our Warbling Vireo arrived this morning.
[margin]Derby's lane[/margin]
  At 10 A.M. I drove to town to do some shopping.
In the very middle of the village on Main St. a
Phoebe was singing. Orioles were scattered about
everywhere but I saw only males.
  To Ball's Hill at 2 P.M. sailing close handed across
the meadows. As I neared the hill I was amazed to
see three Double crusted Cormorants flying towards me
at a moderate height. They came nearly over me & then 
began mounting upward in a broad spiral occasionally
sailing in circles and after attaining an elevation of
1000 ft or more going off over Runkatassett Hill (to the
N.W. I had a good view of them through the
glass & thought I made out the white nuptial 
[?] on their necks.
[margin]Cormorants
(P. [?]) 
on the 
river.[/margin]