East Watertown, Mass.
1902.
August 30
  Clear and warm with light S.W. wind.
  Visited the Coolidge farm again this forenoon and
took more photographs there. The woods immediately
behind the Catholic Cemetery was so near devoid of
bird life that all I could find in there was a 
single Chickadee; yet they used to teem with Warblers,
Vireos, Nuthatches, Wood Pewees etc. at just this season.
What can have banished these birds? Perhaps they 
are crowded out by the English Sparrows which rose
in clouds as we thrashed our way through the
rows of cabbages, celery, tomatoes etc. that bordered
the edges of the woods.
  About the shores of the little pond in the rear
of Mt. Auburn I heard Song Sparrows chirping and 
saw a number of Chipping Sparrows and a flock of
eight Purple Finches and in gray plumage. A
Blue Jay was screaming in Mt. Auburn.
  I fear that the midsummer flights of migrating
Swallows have ceased to visit Cambridge. I have not
seen a single bird passing over our place nor
did I find any on the Charles River Marshes near
the mouth of Arsenal Brook on the 27th. I
cannot understand why they have so suddenly and 
apparently utterly - deserted these localities.
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