Concord, Mass.
1905.
May 3
  Clear and very warm with strong S.W. wind. Ther. 44 degrees, 79 degrees.
  Arrival: - Catbird 1 (mewing), Nashville Warbler (1 silent male), Usnea Warbler
3 males in a flock in full song, Black & Yellow W. 1 silent male, Black-throated Blue W. 1 male in weak song,
Maryland Yellow-throat 1 silent male, Redstart 1 in full song, Water Thrush 1 in full song, Bobolink 1 in full song,
Baltimore Oriole 1 in full song, Kingbird 1, Crested Flycatcher 1 in full song, Least Flycatcher 1 in full song,
Solitary Vireo 2 in full song, Spotted Sandpiper 1. Oven bird 2 in full song
  It was a great bird day. A big wave of migrants arrived
last night just in advance or, at least, on the crest of, the
warm wave, as so often happens. As I was dressing this
morning I heard an Oriole fluting near the cabin and a little
later a Bobolink in full ecstatic song across the river. Just
after breakfast an Oven bird song on the hill. Later I heard
one at the farm. A Water Thrush singing in Ball's Hill Swamp
& a silent male Maryland Yellow throat near the cabin. A Ruby-
crowned Kinglet there too. 7 Peabody Birds together in the
river path at evening. A Thrasher singing across the river. A
Cat-bird mewing in the swamp.
  At 8.30 A.M. I started for the farm. Saw a Kingbird
in Bensen's field & near his house a pair of Downy Woodpecker,
one of them drumming on a resonant elm prong. A Solitary
Vireo was singing gloriously in the old oak woods behind
his house.
  At the Ritchie place I found a pair of Tree Swallows
circling about the foxes and two or more Barn Swallows
entering the barn. A Chebec was singing near the house.
One of the Phoebes was sitting on the nest in the
barn cellar. A Brown Thrasher & a Vesper Sparrow singing
across the road. A Bluebird flitting about the ploughed lands.
The tulips & hyacinths in front of apple cellar in full blossom.