Cambridge to Concord.
1895.
March 26
  Clear with warm sun but blustering, cold N.W. wind.
  Starting at 8.15 A. M. I drove to Concord. It rained
heavily last night and the roads were in very bad
condition so that I have to walk the horse the greater
part of the way and did not reach the Keyes' until
about noon. The woods are still buried deep in
snow but the fields are everywhere bare and on some
of the more sheltered and sunnier slopes the grass
is already green. Song Sparrows and Crows were numerous
everywhere and I saw a single Fox Sparrow in Lincoln
but there were no Bluebirds. I fear the latter were nearly
all destroyed in the Middle States during the severe
weather last February. While I was at Washington (Feb.
14 to 18th) a great many were found dead in the
neighborhood of that city.
  After lunch I got out my canoes and overhauled them,
giving one of them a coat of shellac. Song Sparrows 
were singing in every direction and seven Rusty Blackbirds 
were stalking along the edge of the water opposite the 
Buttericks' landing.
  Geo. Keyes tells me that he paddled down to Carlisle
Bridge on the 24th but found the river below Ball's Hill
full of floating fields of ice. He saw about 200 Ducks,
the majority Gooseanders he thinks. This afternoon
the river and meadows seemed to be wholly
free from ice as far as I could see from the
Buttericks' hill.