Concord, Mass.
1896
April 6
(No 3)
[April 6, 1896]

behaved in this manner.
  About the middle of the afternoon several Leopard Frogs
began croaking over on the Bedford shore. They are the first
Frogs of any kind that I have heard this spring. I cannot
understand what makes the Hylas & Wood Frogs so late.
  The first Osprey appeared early this forenoon coming in
from the South & passing out of sight down river flying
at a height of several hundred feet & apparently migrating.
  As I was starting for home at 5 P.M. I heard the cry
of a Herring Gull & looking up saw three of these birds circling
at so great a height that they looked no larger than
Swallows.
  I had a brisk sail over the meadows but the wind
fell as I approached Flint's bridge & I paddled the
remainder of the way. Robins were singing freely about
the houses near the bridge but none have appeared yet
in the Ball's Hill region and I do not think that one
half the birds which will breed in & about the tower have
arrived.
  The Red-wings [Red-winged Blackbird] & Song Sparrows were singing everywhere just
before sunset but the former are not so numerous as
they should be by this date.
  As I was crossing the Great Meadow I was surprised to
see perched on a bush on the little island near the middle
of this extensive & now flooded meadow a solitary Meadow Lark [Meadowlark]. 
There was a Male Red wing [Red-winged Blackbird] in the same bush. Is it possible that
the Meadow Lark [Meadowlark]was intending to roost in these bushes?