Cambridge & Concord.
1900
April 16      
  Clear, calm & very warm for the season, especially
in the afternoon.
  Spent the forenoon at Cambridge overseeing some
changes that the men are making in the garden.
While thus engaged I heard the call of a Bluebird
and looking up saw two of these birds flying
rather higher towards the N.W. I also saw a small
flock (6 or 7) of Cedar Birds & heard a Goldfinch singing.
No Purple Finches have been seen in the garden this
spring although Lothrop tells me they are numerous
in Belmont. I fear they are nearly a thing of the
past in Cambridge for only a very few appeared this
last year. 
Cambridge
A Bluebird
heard calling
over the Garden
No Purple Finches
this spring.
  H. A. Purdie and I took 2 P.M. train
for Concord. Gilbert, who had gone up by an
earlier train, met us at West Bedford & ferried
me across the river. The water is low for this season
  most of the Great Meadows being out.
  At the cabin we found hepaticas in fullest bloom
and a good many blossoms of Claytonia opened.
Soon after our arrival a Phoebe & a Pine Warbler
began singing near the cabin. Several Robins &
Song Sparrows were flitting along the path. A Bluebird
 flew over warbling & we heard Red-wings in the
distance. All through the afternoon the croakings
of inummerable  Leopard Frogs rolled over the half
submerged meadows & I heard Wood Frogs in a pool
on the Bedford shore. At evening & all into the
night Hylas were pumping in full chorus & the Leopard Frogs
till "sawing" & "grating their teeth"
Spring flowers
Birds.
Frogs.
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