Concord, Mass.
1896
April 13
[April 13, 1896]

  Cloudless with light S. [South] wind. Oppressively warm the
thermometer rising to 82 [degrees] at noon and standing at 80 [degrees]
at sunset.
  I went to Cambridge for the day - more's the pity! - 
so had no opportunity to observe whether this unusual
warm wave brought with it a flight of birds. It had
an extraordinary effect on the general appearance of the
country, however. When I walked across the causeway
to the Lowell Station this morning I could detect no
signs of green grass save along the waters edge. At
evening when I returned along this road the southern
slopes of the hills and large tracts of meadows were
strongly tinged with green and in many places the
grass was wholly green and appeared to have grown
an inch or more. Thus the change from brown to green
fields came in one day.
  I heard a Meadow Lark [Meadowlark] in Hudson's meadow this
morning. At Cambridge Robins had greatly increased
in numbers since my last visit. Thus I saw five
in Hubbard Park & two on our place.
  A dozen or more Hylas peeping this evening in
the Mill Brook meadow but I have not heard
a really full chorus from them yet.