1893
May 22
Concord, Mass
  Clear and warm with steady, rather fresh, west wind which
died away at sunset: A remarkably beautiful day.
[margin]Ball's Hill[/margin]

Faxon called me at daybreak and together we listened for
half an hour or more standing part of the time in the
door of the cabin but not going out. There was practically
no singing although the morning was still and clear as
well as rather warm. We heard, indeed, a Robin, A Redwing,
Song Sparrows &[and] a few other common birds but there were
frequent intervals of dead silence - for several second*[seconds] at a time.
A little after sunrise we dressed and walked around
behind Ball's Hill. There were a good many small birds in
&[and] near the swamp but they were not singing freely.
We saw two Black &[and] Yellow Warblers, both males, one singing,
a silent Canadian Warbler and a number of Cat Birds, and
Chestnut-sided Warblers besides several Wilson's Thrushes, and
Oven Birds and three Redstarts, all males in full song.
There was a Water Thrush on the river front and a Tanager
&[and] Black-throated Green Warbler on Ball's Hill. A Wilson's
Black-cap was singing quite steadily near the east end
of the Hill and a Black-poll Warbler in front of the 
cabin. We heard two Partridges drumming, one in the
Blakemore woods, the other on the Bedford shore opposite
Ball's Hill. A Dove, the only one that I have heard
this month, also cooed a few times near the W[est] Bedford
station. The Bittern pumped a few times in the distance
up river, apparently near Dakin's Hill.
  On talking over the matter last evening we both agreed
that there should be a goodly number of migrants this
morning but the Black &[and] Yellow Warblers were the only arrivals
and of our local birds there was no apparent increase.
[margin]Birds seen &[and]
heard in the
early morning[/margin]