1903.
April 9
(No 2)
  Later in the day (about noon) as I was standing in
front of the farm barn I heard the now familiar
cackle of one of these Hawks & looking up saw the bird
soaring at an immense height - certainly two or three
thousand feet. It moved in circles on set wings like
a Buteo but the circles were smaller and the birds
motions less graceful & more hurried.
  Bluebirds and Phoebees were building at the farm
at about noon both in the same places which they chose
last year, the Bluebirds in the box on the birch pole
attached to the roof of the shed, the Phoebees under
the eaves of the barn.
   There was a deafening chorus of Hyla voices at
evening in the pond below the orchard and I also
heard one Garden Toad trilling.
  As I was passing over Pine Ridge this forenoon I
heard a flock of Red-wings singing in medley. They
proved to be scattered about among the dense foliage
of a bushy pasture white pine. I walked directly
under them but they were so perfectly concealed that
I did not see a single bird until they flew when
I counted twelve, all males. One of them was apart
from the rest on the ground in the pasture just over
the wall but he was singing as merrily as the others.