Belmont, Mass.
1902.
August 16
  Forenoon partly cloudy; afternoon clear. Rather warm with light N.W. wind.
  Spent the day in Belmont taking photographs, walking across
country from Spring Street to Waverley, visiting the Wren Orchard,
lunching at the spring near Marsh Street. Birds fairly 
numerous especially Chippies and Cedar Birds in the
Cedar pastures. Came upon one large mixed flock among
red cedars. It included several Black-throated Green Warblers,
two Nashville Warblers, two Yellow-throated Vireos and ten
or a dozen Chickadees.
  Saw two Brown Thrashers in Marsh Street and seven
or eight Barn Swallows perched on a telegraph wire near
the Brown Farm.
  A Quail was whistling in Rock Meadow.
  The region through which we passed today
has changed reasonably little in the last thirty
years. Nearly all the woods remain but the trees 
have of course increased in size. The greatest
change is in the pastures where the cedars have
so increased in size and numbers that many
trails formerly open have become dense cedar woods.
The Crossbill woods have been thinned and many
of the pines are dead or dying. There are two
golf links in the pastures near Marsh Street.
Almost no new houses or other buildings have
been erected.
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