Cambridge, Mass.
1903.
March 20
(No 2)
  On returning from Belmont I alighted from the electric
at Mt. Auburn Gate. As I strolled slowly through the
eastern part of the cemetery, I heard a Bluebird (calling)
a Chickadee, a Kinglet, a Creeper, two Song Sparrow (in
full song), seven or eight Crows, a Flicker, a Downy,
and a Sparrow Hawk. The last named bird uttered
its prolonged, characteristic cry near me among some
large oaks but I did not get a sight at it.
  Crossing the road to the Joseph Coolidge farm I
found the weedy flat along the brook just below
the greenhouses & near the old piggery alive with
Song Sparrows. Most of them were singing finely & I
frequently heard three or four in quick succession.
  The water has been drawn off from the large
round pond in the north-east corner of Mt. Auburn
and a number of men with several horses & tip carts
were removing the soil from the bottom. It is a rich
bed of peaty muck at least three or four feet in
depth. Some of our earlier maps show that this
pond was once twice as large as it is at present
and of an elongated as well as very irregular shape.