1903.
March 21
  Cloudy with raw N.E. wind and frequent showers of
fine rain.
  Took 2.05 P.M. train for West Bedford where I
crossed the river and walked thence to the Farm.
Just as I was launching the boat a flock of 4 Whistlers
passed flying down river only a few yards above the
water. Heard a number of Red-wings singing in the distance.
The only birds noted at Ball's Hill were a Robin, a Chickadee
and two Song Sparrows. At the farm I found in the
orchard just behind the house about a dozen Juncos, five
or six Song Sparrows, several Robins and Bluebirds, a pair
of Downy Woodpeckers, a Flicker and a White breasted Nuthatch.
There was also a Fox sparrow singing gloriously but I did
not see him. The Robin singing at evening was general and
beautiful. I think all our local birds of this species
have already arrived. The Bluebirds seem to be as numerous
as they were a week ago. The country is simply flooded
with them.
  As twilight was falling I went to the Blueberry Pasture
to listen for the Woodcock but I did not hear him.
Wood Frogs were croaking and Hylas peeping in fair numbers.
  R.H. Howe Jr., whom I saw this afternoon, tells me 
that Samuel Howe Jr. has heard that the Great Horned Owls
are breeding in Lawrence's woods again this year and
that so far as he knows no one has as yet molested
or, indeed, found their nest. I have seen their pellets
on Pine Ridge of late.