1893
May 17
(No 3)
Cambridge to E. Lexington, Mass.
  After spending the afternoon at my house
I started again at 6 P.M. and drove through
Arlington to East Lexington where I put up for
the night at the hotel by the upper reservoir. Near
Spy Pond I saw a pair of Wood Ducks flying high
towards Rock Meadow. A Green Heron also passed over
me flying just above the tops of the elms on
Pleasant St. near the village of Arlington. A Wood Thrush
was singing in the twilight in an apple orchard
by the roadside beyond Arlington.
  The cherry trees in Cambridge were shedding their
petals to-day; the pear trees were in full bloom; the
apple blossoms on the point of opening. Forsythia,
Missouri Currants, Spirea & magnolias in bloom.
  Robins, Orioles, Yellow Warblers, a Red start, Chipping Sparrow,
Least Flycatcher Purple Finch, and two Hummingbirds in my garden to-day.
A female Redstart was collecting material for her nest. I neither
say nor heard any Grosbeaks in Cambridge.
[margin]Birds in
my garden[/margin]