Concord, Mass.
1896
April 26
[April 26,  1896]

  A brilliantly clear day with strong S.E. [Southeast] wind.
  To Fairhaven for the day starting at 9 a.m. and
returning late in the afternoon. I sailed more than
half the distance up & practically the whole of the way
back.
  I saw a solitary Chimney Swift near Red Bridge &
heard my first Chebec at Nashawtuck Bridge. Another
arrival was a Black-thoated Green Warbler singing in
the big pines opposite Fairbourne Cliffs. Still another
was a Towhee which F. Hosmer told me he had just
seen in the Estabrook woods. I expected to hear
Brown Thrashers everywhere but not one sang to me all
day.
  In addition to the Meadow Lark which sang in the early
morning near the house I heard three other males &
perhaps four. One was in the meadow near the Pritchards'
park and two were singing at the same time on
neighbouring apple trees at the foot of Heard's Hill. On
the way home I heard one in each of these places & a
third on the French farm.
  There were a good many Martins to-day flying high
& warbling delightfully.
  I lunched at Conantum & took six photographs there.
Houstonia in bloom in the opening & Saxifrage on the
cliff.
  On the way home landed at the big pines & went into
the upper spruce swamp for Kalmia glauca. It is much
more abundant there than in the Ledum Swamp.
  The grass is green everywhere now.