Concord, Mass.
1899.
May 14.
  Clear with cool W to N.W. wind. Ther. [thermometer]: 51 [degrees] - 6 A.M.,
69 [degrees] - 1 P.M., 54 [degrees] - 8 P.M.
  Yesterday's birds were all gone this morning and a
small flight of newcomers had taken their places. Early
in the morning a Wood Thrush sang for half-an-hour
or more very near the cabin. It was not the bird heard 
on the 12th. but a deep, rich-voiced singer.
[margin]A Second
Wood Thrush
visits the 
cabin[/margin]
  After breakfast I reviewed the birds on the south
side of the hill with some care & found in addition
to the locally established Redstarts, Creepers, Chestnut-sides
etc. a Wilson's Black-cap and a Black-poll Warbler
only, the last named being the first that I
have seen this spring.
[margin]Few north-
bound migrants
about.[/margin]
[margin]Black-poll 
Warbler arrives[/margin] 
  Later in the morning I crossed the swamp &
then went to Holden's Hill. During this walk
I saw only one northern bird, a Black & Yellow
Warbler. As far as I could judge the local-breeding
species were represented by only about their normal
summer numbers. It was a great change from
yesterday. In fact I should say that the
total number of small birds in the region about
Ball's Hill was not one tenth to-day what it
was yesterday.
  The Red-shouldered Hawks['] nest in the big pine
at Holden's Hill looked dismantled & is evidently
not at present occupied. Yet I heard one 
of the birds screaming high in air towards Bensen's.
I wonder where they are nesting this spring.
Hylas & Leopard Frogs still noisy at times.
[margin]Red shouldered
Hawk's nest
at Holden's
Hill not
occupied this year[/margin]
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