Cambridge, Mass.
1900.
May 13
(No 3)
  On returning to the home place I found the 
garden alive with birds. There were Robins, Cat birds,
(a pair, apparently, the male in full song) a very large
Gray-cheeked Thrush, an Oven bird, an Usnea Warbler,
a Yellow Warbler, a Chestnut-sided Warbler, a Redstart,
A Grosbeak, a Purple Finch. Later in the afternoon
a Lincoln's Finch appeared in the central flower
beds where he rambled about feeding and a
superb adult male Bay-breasted Warbler alighted for
a minute or more on a wire stay within 12 feet
of where C & I were standing. There were also
an Oriole or two & a White-throated Sparrow.
Walter Deane tells me that these birds were here
yesterday. There was a heavy flight of birds 
during the past three days & he identified
thirty-one species in the garden in a single
day. The Gray-cheeked Thrush sang & called
in low tones late in the afternoon.
Our Garden
swarming
with birds
  The House Sparrows have established a 
roost in the lilacs behind the house where
great numbers of them assembled at about
sunset this evening making a hideous din.
Roost of
House Spar-
rows in our 
lilacs.
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