Concord, Mass
1893 
July 1                                                                                     .
  Clear and warm with light S.E. breeze.
  Spent the day in the house but after tea took a
short walk along the Estabrook road. The sunset was
obscured by a bank of leaden gray clouds and the
evening was rather cool and damp with a breeze from
the S.W. Song Sparrows and Grass Finches were singing
with unusual freedom & fervor but most other birds
were silent or nearly so. I heard a  Grass Finches sing twice,
a Field Sparrow once, a Maryland Yellow throat several times,
a Black - billed Cuckoo once, a Robin once. There was a
Yellow-winged Sparrow in full song in Mr. Keyes's field
and another in Mr. Derbys';  I have not heard the
former individual before since returning from Connecticut,
but he sang regularly in this field through the latter
half of May.
  A pine Warbler was in full song for a hour or more
early this morning in the elms in front of the Buttericks'.
  Swifts appear to be more numerous this season than they were
last year. I hear then rumbling in the chimney of the
Tolmans' house making a sound like distant thunder or the
rapid beat of horses hoofs mingled with the roll of wheels across
a wooden bridge. Another pair, [delete]are[/delete] nesting in one of the
chimneys of Mr. Keyess' farm house, evidently have young as one
or both of the old birds go into & from the chimney at short,
regular intervals. Both of these chimneys are of the modern
type with small flues. It is pretty sight to see the Swifts
drop into them with fluttering wings.