1893
May 16
Concord, Mass.
  Cloudy with east wind and thin, intermittent showers.
At 5 P.M. it began to rain heavily and continued
through the night, the wind increasing, also.
[margin]Rhodora
Pool[/margin]
  I spent the forenoon with Pat in the woods near
Rhodora Pool and at the northern base of Punkatassett
digging lady's slippers of which we obtained about
one hundred plants. In the afternoon we drove after
them (having left them hidden behind a wall on the
roadside) and taking them to Ball's Hill planted
them all before five o'clock. It was most attractive
work for the woods are now very beautiful with the
unfolding foliage, flowering shrubs & plants and the
numerous birds.
At Rhodora Pool a Wood Thrush was singing steadily
in the dripping woods. There were also Black-throated
Green & Chestnut-sided Warblers, Field Sparrow, Thrashers
& c. Two male Ruby-throated Hummingbirds were quarreling
for the exclusive possession of a blossoming cherry tree
near Mr. Dutton's and there was a third male at
the Buttricks!
[margin]Wood Thrush
singing in 
the rain[/margin]
  I saw three Cuckoos, two Black-billed & one Yellow Billed,
along the Estabrook road. All three flew from small 
wild apple trees covered with nests of the tent caterpillars
on which they had evidently been feeding.
[margin]Cuckoos[/margin]
  The migration of northern birds has been most inconspicuous
of late. I did not see nor hear a single species which 
dose not breed here, during the morning but there
were three Yellow rumps, all females, at Ball's Hill this P.M.
[margin]No marked
migration
since the
14th[/margin]