Concord, Mass.
1899.
May 2
  Cloudy most of the day, the forenoon calm and sultry.
A cool east wind in the afternoon. Two thunder showers
passed to the south west. Ther. [thermometer] 65 [degrees] at 6 A.M., 69 [degrees] at 1 P.M.
  Arrivals: - Wilson's Thrush, one calling near the cabin in the
morning;  Brown Thrasher, one singing gloriously on W. Bedford
shore at 8 A.M.; Water Thrush, one singing near the cabin,
Maryland Yellow-throat, one singing in the swamp behind
Ball's Hill; Bobolink, a snatch of song coming at first from
directly over the cabin, again from beyond the crest of 
Ball's Hill at 3 P.M., evidently from a bird migrating at the time.
[margin]Arrivals[/margin]
  Oven-birds singing in every direction this morning. Two
White-throated Sparrows at the Barrett Spring. An immature
Bald Eagle in a pine on Davis's Hill (no doubt the same 
bird from April 29th). A White-breasted Nuthatch calling
wot-wot-wot in Parker's orchard. Yellow-rumped Warbler
heard calling. [Male] Hairy Woodpecker on Ball's Hill.
[margin]Bald Eagle[/margin]
  At evening as twilight was falling I saw at least 300
Swallows skimming close over the meadows under the lea of a
high bank which sheltered them from the keen E. wind.
They kept alighting on some isolated thickets of button bushes
& in clusters as dense as are often seen in autumn. About
two-thirds of the flock were White-bellies, the remainder
Barn Swallows. First Dragon Flies (two) seen
[margin]Big flock
of Swallows[/margin]
[margin]First
Dragon Flies[/margin]
  Spent the forenoon on the W. Bedford shore getting wild flowers
Went to the Barrett farm in the afternoon by way of
Davis's Hill. Woods silent. Only a Phoebe in the old orchard.
Chestnut-headed Warblers, a Maryland Yellow throat, a Red start, Creepers
a Swamp Sparrow singing in the swamp behind Ball's Hill this morning.
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