1903.
May 18
  Clear with light S. wind. Hottest day thus far. Ther 93 degrees.
  The only arrival noted to-day was a House Wren
which sang a few times about 8 A.M. in an apple tree
directly in front of the house; the only northern breeding
bird of any kind a Black-poll Warbler singing in
the elms that shade over bit of road. What does it
mean? Has the migration come to an end early in
the month? It would seem so for surely this clear &
intensely hot weather should have sent us a good bird
wave had there been any birds yet to come. The matter
seems the more mysterious because of the fact that not
all our summer residents have yet appeared. Thus I have
yet to note the Yellow-billed Cuckoo and Canadian Warbler
while I have seen only one Wood Pewee and Indigo Bird.
  Bobolinks are not half as numerous as usual & the
same may be said of the Orioles & Grosbeaks.
Tanagers, however, are fully up to their usual abundance.
Red-eyed Vireos are positively scarce & I have not seen
of the more northern breeding species which occur here regularly
during migration either the Black-throated Blue Warbler or
Wilson's Black-cap. Altogether it has been a singular 
season.
   Lawrence tells me that the Cooper's Hawks are carrying off
several of his chickens daily. He thinks they have taken
over thirty within the past two weeks. They now come
& go from & to the pine woods to the westward of
his house where, it seems probable, they have built
their second nest.