1892
May 31
Concord, Massachusetts.
Mass.
Concord. - Cloudless and very warm, in fact, hot,
the thermometer reaching 90 degrees before the day ended.
Little wind until late in P.M. when a cool
sea breeze stole in over the heated land.
I awoke at daybreak but heard almost no
birds. Again at 6 A.M. Champan & I were both
awake but there was curiously little singing. 
When we arose at 7 A.M. the birds seemed to
have roused themselves at last and we heard
Tawny Thrushes, Thrashers, Cat-birds, and a
few Black-polled Warblers along the river front
and the opposite shores of the meadows.
There were at least two Water Thrushes in front
of the cabin but neither sang & both were doubtless
females.
[margin]Ball's Hill.[margin]
[margin]Birds singing
in the early
morning[/margin]

We spent the forenoon very quietly taking a
short walk over my land and spending several
hours talking in the cabin. As we were lying
on the ground on the top of Ball's Hill at about
10 A.M. a White-eyed Vireo began singing in the
oak woods on the N.W. slope. By degrees it worked
its way along the base of the hill into the big
swamp where we last heard it about noon. It 
was doubtless a migrant, merely [?] for the 
day, but it is the very first White-eye that I 
have ever heard in Concord - although the bird
breeds at Wayland, according to Faxon.

[margin]White-eyed
Vireo[/margin]
  A Robin singing at the [?] end of Ball's
Hill this morning interpolated in its song, at
rather long, irregular intervals, a [delete]shot[/delete] a
succession of rather sharp yet [?] notes which
[margin]Unusual song
of a Robin[/margin]