1893
May 28
(No 3)
Concord, Mass.
  There were two Gray-cheeked and two Water Thrushes
in the bush along the water front of Ball's Hill
and flying over and among the oaks on its summit
a dozen or more Swifts and a few Barn Swallows. On
climbing the hill I found immense numbers of
gnats drifting about in swarms among the trees from
the ground to above the tops of the tallest trees.
[margin]Gray-cheeked
Thrushes
Swifts &
Swallows flying
over Ball's Hill[/margin]
  At sunset Grosbeaks, Veeries, Oven Birds, Robins, Song
Sparrows, Red wings, Chestnut-sided Warblers, and one
Pine Warbler (the first I have heard for over a week) were
singing within hearing of the cabin and the Bittern
was pumping in the usual place across the meadows.
No Thrashers sang but I saw one in the path near
where there was a nest last year and where, doubtless,
the female is now sitting as I saw her daily there
with her mate up to within a few days since when
I have missed her. The female Mniotilta was also
at the cabin running about over the logs. 
[margin]Birds singing
at sunset[/margin]
  After taking tea in the cabin I started up
river just as the last Veeries songs were heard. Indeed
it would have been nearly dark but for the moonlight.
A Whippoorwill was singing on Holden's Hill and
I heard two others above, one near Hunt's.
Hylas were peeping almost as freely & numerously
as in April and I heard a few Leopard Frogs
but no Toads. Perhaps these nights are too cool for them.
Spotted Sandpipers, A Solitary Sandpiper, and a
flock of Peeps (Tringa minutilla) passed over or
near me calling to each other in the gloom.
[margin]Whippoorwills
Hylas[/margin]