Concord, Mass.
1899.
May 18
  Cloudy with raw E. wind. A light shower at evening.
Ther. 44 [degrees] - 6 A.M., 54 [degrees] - 1 P.M., 48 [degrees] - 8 P.M.
  Fine bird concert at cabin early this morning, Robin, Thrasher,
Cat-birds, Yellow, Chestnut-sided, Black & White, Pine, Black-throated
Green & Canadian Warblers, Wilson's Black-cap, White-throated
Sparrow, Lincoln's Finch, Grosbeak, Tanager, Red-eyed & Yellow-
throated Vireos, Redstarts, a Water Thrush, Bobolink, Red-wings
etc.
[margin]Birds singing
near cabin
in early
morning.[/margin]
  To Barrett farm in forenoon with W. Deane. A Blackburnian
Warbler singing in Prescott's pines, another in Barrett pines,
a Golden-winged Warbler near spring, another at head of river,
two Great-crested Flycatchers in Barrett orchard, a Purple Finch
(a rare bird this year) near Barretts house, two Yellow-billed Cuckoos,
a Black-billed do. & many common birds. No evidence
of the arrival of any migrants since the 15th but all 
that came on that date have evidently remained. Apple trees
out of bloom. Partridges & Phoebee sitting.
[Birds noted
at Barrett
farm.[/margin]
[margin]No migration
since May 15.
Apple trees
out of bloom.[/margin]
  In P.M. rowed up river to the Holt. Four Solitary Sandpipers,
seven or eight Spotted, one Least, one Greater, and one Lesser
Yellow-legs. 
[margin]Waders[/margin]
  The Lesser Yellow-legs was feeding on a mud flat at the mouth
of Bigelow Brook at the base of Dakin's Hill. We did not see
it until it took wing. It came out past us within forty
yards uttering the characteristic double & single whistles
as it flew. We had a good view of it & there can simply
be no doubt whatever as to our identification.
[margin]Lesser Yellow legs[/margin]
  Swallows & Swifts in immense numbers over river meadows all day.
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