1905.
May 21
(No 3)
  The Cape May Warbler noted today was first seen in
a young swamp white oak (about 25 ft. high) on the edge of
the Barrett Meadow in company with a male Blackburnian, a male
Magnolia Warbler & a Nashville Warbler. Just across the wood road
in which I was standing the oak woods on the hillside 
were alive with various kinds of Warblers most of which
were evidently north bound migrants. The Cape May was
under my glass for fully 15 minutes & not over 30 ft. from
me. He was rather dull-colored for a spring male. He spent 
most of this time in the top of the oak probing among
the tasseled blossoms with his sharp, slender bill. His
movements were comparatively (i.e for a Warbler) slow and 
deliberate and very like that of a Black-poll. Viewed
from beneath he might easily have been taken for a 
Magnolia Warbler. He made no sound of any kind. After
a time his companions joined the back of the flock
on the hillside but he remained alone in the oak for
five minutes or more after they had left him, finally
following them, however.
  I saw no less than four different Lincoln's Finches
this morning. The first was feeding in the millet patch in
front of the old barn. He flew to a birch grove stone wall
when I left him. Less than two minutes later I started
another (certainly a different bird) from the ground at
the foot of the raspberry patch. He also took to a wall.
The third I found in the bushes on the river bank at
Davis Hill and the fourth in a precisely similar place
on the edge of the river a little west of Bensen's Knoll.
All four birds were silent & timid rather than wary. I saw
them all through my glass only a few yards away & identified
every one of them absolutely. (The two at the farm were together in
the millet patch just before sunset.)