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Concord, Mass.
1898.
May 18
  Cloudless, cool  in the early morning, very warm
through the middle of the day. Wind light & variable
(N. to W.) with intervals of cloud cover.
  Took a long walk with Deane in the forenoon
starting at 8.30 and getting back to the cabin
a little after noon. The whole country was swarming
with birds. I have rarely ever seen so many even
at this season. They were very evenly distributed
and we met with no flocks anywhere but every
thicket, however small, harbored something of more
or less interest. The best things met with were a
[male] Bay-breasted Warbler, seen near the spring in
Mrs. Barrett's woods, and a White-crowned Sparrow
found among bushes behind Bensen's house. We saw
or heard three Blackburnian Warblers (two in Lawrence's
woods), three Black-throated Blue Warblers, six or
seven Black & Yellow Warblers, six Wilson's Black caps,
seven Tanagers (one [female]), four Solitary Vireos (one on
Holden's Hill, two behind Bensen's, and one near
Mrs. Barrett's), four Yellow-throated Vireos, several
Red-eyes and a host of common birds.
  One of the prettiest sights we saw was an apple 
orchard (Mrs. Barrett's) in fullest bloom with a 
score or more of Warblers - Black & Yellow, Black-throated
Green,  Myrtle, Nashville & Parula - flitting about
among the clusters of pink & white clusters of
flowers probing them for insects or honey(?) I know
not which & singing freely. This I have not
seen before for many years. I had almost began
to distrust my recollection of its occurence in the