1893
May 23
(No 2)
Concord, Mass
  After dining at the cabin I took a long walk behind
and over the hill. There were many common, [local?] birds
singing vigorously but no northern migrants, not even
Black-poll Warblers of which I heard several on the way
down river. A Tanager was singing on Ball's Hill.
[margin]Ball's Hill[/margin]

  I sailed all the way down this morning skirting 
the southern border of the meadows. On the way home at evening I
also crossed the meadows under sail, close handed. The
Bittern was pumping in the usual place.

  A little below Flint's bridge I always see Spotted Sandpipers,
usually a pair, sometimes three together. This evening
there were four flying about in a bunch like Peeps for
which, indeed, I at first mistook them.
[margin]Spotted
Sandpipers[/margin]

  After tea I heard a Night Hawk giving the [?]
cry high in air over Mr. Keyes's field but it did
not boom.
[margin]Night Hawk[/margin]

  Mr. Buttrick tells me that there is one inhabited
Eave Swallow's nest on Mr. Keyes's barn. He saw
the birds enter it yesterday. Mr. Keyes's farmer [?] says
that several pairs nested there last year. Mr. Buttrick
calls them "[Labrodor?] Swallows" &[and] says that this was
the name by which they were generally known in
Concord when he was a boy.
[margin]Eave Swallows[/margin]

  The Musk Rats*[Muskrats] are bringing river weed into my
floating boat house but I have not seen any of
them in it as yet.
[margin]Musk Rats*[Muskrats][/margin]