Concord, Mass.
1899.
May 3
  Cloudy up to 10 A.M. Remainder of day clear with
strong cold N.E. wind. Ther. [thermometer] 48 [degrees] - 6 A.M.; 66 [degrees] - 1 P.M.
  No arrivals noted and no apparent increase in the
numbers of species already here. The raw E. wind
discouraged singing on the part of the Warblers but the 
Red-wings and Song Sparrows sang more freely than has 
been the case for some time.
  A solitary Vireo was in full song in the oaks near the
cabin at noon and earlier in the day I saw a little
company of three Yellow-rumps at the east end of the hill.
On the W. Bedford shore I saw a flock of 20 Red-wings
and two pairs of Song sparrows.
[margin]Solitary Vireo[/margin]
  At the Barrett farm late in the afternoon I heard a
Chippy singing and two Least Flycatchers & a Towhee
calling. The apple trees in the old orchard are green with small leaves and faintly pink with fruit buds on the
point of bursting. It seems though that there are so few 
birds there.
[margin]Scarcity of 
birds at 
Barrett farm[/margin]
  At evening as I was strolling through the pines just
behind Ball's Hill I heard a Snipe drum twice over 
Holden's Meadow. A Virginia Rail calling cutta in 
the blueberry Swamp and Robins were singing and calling
all around us in the pines. One bird was a superb
with an unusually clear, full voice. 
[margin]Birds at
Ball's Hill[/margin]
  Gilbert saw two Wilson's Thrushes near the cabin &  [delete]I[/delete]
I heard an Oven Bird give the flight song.
   Shad bush is in full bloom nearly everywhere now.
Columbines in bloom in front of the cabin.
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