1893
June 4
(No 3)
Fairfield, Connecticut
 We heard three Blue winged Yellow Warblers singing &
identified (that is seen distinctly) two of them. Our first
bird was flitting along the roadside, our second in a
swampy area, the third on a dry hillside among cedars.
 Late in the afternoon I walked out over the same
road that we took yesterday but beyond to a rocky
knoll covered with red cedars with an extensive, swampy
woods of walks, chestnuts & maples nearby. It was
a pretty spot and alive with birds. As I lay at
full length on a sloping ledge sprinkled with
columbines & free from the poison ivy which covered
all the ground down about with dense beds & 
knee-high thickets of glossy green foliage. I could
hear two Chats, a Wood Thrush, Cat Birds, two
Blue-winged Yellow Warblers, a Yellow-billed Cuckoo, a
Field Sparrow, a Redstart, a Bobolink and Orchard &
Baltimore Orioles, all within easy ear-shot of any
position. A male Hummingbird alighted on a dead
cedar near us and the Chats and Blue-winged
Yellow Warblers, both of which were evidently nesting
near, came close about to peep and scold at or
sing to me. The Blue-wings had wholly different
songs (see sys. note pocket) but I saw both of them
distinctly & made sure they were typical birds.
The walk home at evening down the broad, quiet
street with its arch of elms and the Baltimore
& Orchard Orioles singing in every directions, a
Meadow Lark whistling, & innumerable swifts careening
about, was most delightful. Faxon spent the
afternoon on the salt marshes when he found the
three Ammodrami, maritumus, caudacutus & savanna