Concord, Mass.
1899.
May 7.
  Cloudless with light W. wind. Very warm at midday. There 56 [degrees]
6 A.M. 72 [degrees] - 6 P.M.
  Arrivals. - Yellow-throated Vireo, two singing on Davis's Hill;
Rose-breasted Grosbeak, one singing on W. Bedford shore only
in the morning & afterwards near the cabin; Baltimore Oriole, two
at Concord, one seen by Miss Marion Keyes, the other by H. Holden;
Hummingbird, one at Concord by Miss Marion Keyes; Least
Sandpiper, one at the Holt; Carolina Rail, two on Great
Meadow singing after dark.
[margin]Arrivals[/margin]
  Walking to Davis's Hill this morning (8-9 A.M.) I found the
woods and swampy thickets alive with Warblers all of which
belonged to our summer fauna Chestnut sides, Creepers & Black-
throated Green being the most numerous.
[margin]Heavy flight
of Warblers.[/margin]
  In the afternoon I paddled to Concord. Saw several Spotted
Sandpipers, one Least. S. and at least six Solitary Sandpipers
along the river banks & heard Bobolinks in one or two places.
In the Keyes' pasture at sunset a Brow[n] Thrasher was singing
gloriously & a Yellow-winged Sparrow gave the stuttering song.
I heard two other Thrashers earlier in the day.
  Left the Keyes' at 8.15 P.M. and reached the cabin at 8.45.
The night was dark, damp & still the stars very bright.
Two Carolina Rails and a Virginia were singing in Great Meadow[.]
One of the Carolinas I recognized at once as a bird which sang
in the same place (about opposite Bensen's landing) last year.
It has a peculiar voice which I disliked in my journal of last
year. A Swamp Sparrow was also singing steadily
opposite the cabin where I landed.
[margin]Carolina Rail
with peculiar
voice spends
two seasons
on Great M.[/margin]