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Concord, Mass.
1898.
May 12
  Clear and warm with high S. wind increasing to half
a gale and bring[ing] dark, threatening cloud masses at evening.
   This day, also, I was forced to spend at the
cabin although there was a second heavy flight of birds.
Taking a short walk in the early morning I found
the swamp behind the hill alive with Warblers among
these a Black & Yellow and a Wilson's Black-cap
both in full song and both new to my list of this
season. I also heard a Solitary Vireo and numbers
of common birds Chestnut-sided Warblers & Redstarts
being especially numerous & prominent.
  At evening I walked again over the same 
ground. Maryland Yellow-throats & Oven-birds are
singing on every side. The Bittern was silent
but I heard one of the birds on Great Meadow.
  At sunrise this morning I was treated to a fine
concert of bird voices as I lay in bed. Besides 
the earlier arriving species I heard a Cat-bird,
an Oven-bird, a Grosbeak, a Creeper & a Chestnut
sided Warbler.
  For the last two evenings the chorus of Frogs 
has been simply deafening. Hylas, Leopard Frogs &
Toads have been the chief performers with a 
Green Frog joining in occasionally . The Wood Frogs
have been absolutely silent for two weeks or 
more. They usually begin the earliest & invariably
cease the earliest of all the Batrachians.

