1898.
March 12
(No 2)
Cambridge & vicinity.
  A fine, warm rain was falling this morning when
I started on my usual short drive. On reaching the
Maple Swamp I found it alive with Song Sparrows
singing and calling and I heard others on the western
side of Fresh Pond. C. E. Bailey tells me that there
was a general arrival of these Sparrows during last night.
I also heard Tree Sparrows in full song and found
eight or ten Red-wings scattered about over the Glacialis
marshes singing on the tops of isolated trees and bushes.
Beyond Fresh Pond two Flickers were "shouting". Altogether
I heard quite a concert of early spring birds and I
am inclined to believe that it was the first general
concert of the season.
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arrivals[/margin]
  Spelman saw two Grackles in Cambridge on the 1st
and one appeared in our garden on the 9th and
has been seen there every day since but the first
flock was reported by W. Deane this morning - five 
or six birds in the pines on the Ch[?]y Smith
place.
  Bailey tells me that he saw a Phoebee at Lincoln
on the 9th and two birds, apparently a mated pair,
in the same locality on the 10th.
  Fresh Pond is still encased in ice but the ice looks
thin and rotten and will doubtless break up within
a few days. A solitary Gull was flying over the
pond and I saw several flocks of Gulls on their
way there later in the day.