Concord, Mass.
1899.
May 13
  Forenoon sunny and warm but hazy with light S.W. wind.
Afternoon cloudy with strong W. wind. Light showers in the
early evening. Ther. 51 [degrees] - 6 A.M., 71 [degrees] - 1 P.M., 53 [degrees] - 8 P.M.
  Arrivals: - Black & Yellow Warbler 1 [male] (Ball's Hill), Canadian Warbler,
1 [male]* (Davis's Hill), Golden-winged Warbler 3* [male] [male] (Barrett
farm), Lincoln's Finch, 3 (Ball's Hill & Bensen's) Great Crested
Flycatcher 1* (Barrett orchard).
  An immense flight of migrants must have arrived last night
for the country was swarming with them this forenoon. They
were nowhere in flocks but, on the contrary, evenly distributed
everywhere throughout the woods and thickets, at least between
Ball's Hill and the Barrett place. There was no rain wind
to drive them into sheltered places and the foliage is now
so advanced that shade and food can be had in the
thinnest thickets. At Ball's Hill there were not nearly so
many birds as yesterday morning. I was awoken at day break
and heard but little singing and that of the common 
birds only.
[margin]Great "rush" of
migrants.[/margin]
  My walk to the Barrett place immediately after breakfast
was filled with interest, however, and at times with positive
excitement as I took the path through the blueberry swamp to
Davis's Hill, thence through Prescott's pine woods, past the
Barrett spring & through the apple orchard to the house
which I reached at about 9 A.M. Half an hour later
I started back by a different route  -  through the
Barrett run, the oak woods on the road, the road itself
to Bensen's, and down through the fields to
the river landing and thence along the river path
to the cabin. 
[margin]Walk through
woods to
Barrett place[/margin]
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