1903.
March 28
  Cloudy with some N.E. wind. Snow began falling at 5.30
and the ground was white before dark - for the first time this month.
  On my way to Concord this afternoon I stopped at
Arlington Heights to call on W. P. Hadley. His collection although
not large is very interesting. Nearly all his birds are mounted.
Among them is an adult male Orchard Oriole taken in Arlington and
a young Pintail which he shot in Great Meadow in the autumn 
of 1899. It looks like a female but was not sexed. The rarest bird
he showed me was a fine, large, richly-colored Nyctale richardsoni.
It was brought to his house in the flesh one evening last January, when
he was away by a boy named Crosby for whom he mounted it
and who still owns it. Hadley thinks that Crosby got it
somewhere in the woods near (?) Hill. It showed no
shot marks or other signs of injury.
  Hadley's eggs are all in sets but without nests. He has a set
of six eggs of the Golden-winged Warbler which he took in Arlington
and two sets of seven eggs each of the Pied-billed Grebe that
he got at Great Meadow. He found a Black Duck's nest with
fourteen eggs a few years ago on a wooded ridge not far from
this meadow & he says that a pair of Wood Ducks nested
for three succession years in a hollow oak that stood on its
northern edge. They were not seen after 1901, possibly because
the the blow down the following winter.
  I came on to that Bedford by the 5.06 train, crossed
the river in the day and walked to the farm when I
spent the night. Saw two Phoebes at the cabin. It
was snowing hard & no birds were singing when night
closed in.