1903.
May 10
  Clear & warm with fresh S. W. wind.
  Arrivals: - Cat bird 1 male in full song singing near the farm house at 8 A.M.
  Maryland Yellow-throat 2 males in full song in blueberry pasture at 8 A.M.
  Kingbird 2 in a flock at farm another up the road.
  Birds continue to arrive in driblets, most of them a few
days behind their average dates. I added nothing to the above
list, noted near the house just after breakfast, by taking a long
walk up the road and back through the woods along the
river between 9 and 11 A.M. Gilbert who went to Ball's Hill 
in the early forenoon saw nothing new there although he
kept a sharp watch for such species as the Red-start, Water Thrush,
Rose-breasted Grosbeak, etc. In the apple orchards up the road
I heard three Yellow Warblers besides a great number of
Least Flycatchers & Chippies. Fifteen or more Barn Swallows
were flying about the barn where they bred last year. There
they went in & out through a broken window. It has since
been reglazed but the barn door was half open to-day &
they were using that.
  I found three Phoebees nests in sand banks near the river. Two
near together in one bank were both filled to the brim with
sand. One looked like a new the other like an old nest.
The third nest held four eggs. A Jay was searching for it
flitting along the edge of the bank with one of the Phoebees
following her & chirping excitedly. All three nests were placed
low down in pockets evidently dug out by the birds in the
vertical wall of sand & all were protected above by the
overhang of the bank. I found a second Phoebees nest on
the farm this morning in the cellar of the new barn. It held
4 eggs. Examining this nest more closely next day I
found that it was the one built last year with the last year's eggs intact but discolored. 
A Phoebee nested there last year but something killed her.