Concord and Cambridge, Mass.
1903
May 19
  Clear & oppressively hot through forenoon. Light thunder
showers at Cambridge in afternoon, a rather heavy one at Concord
wetting the ground to a depth of two or more inches.
  Noted only resident summer birds about the farm house
in the early morning and at evening one of them, the Yellow-billed
Cuckoo, a new arrival.
  At Cambridge, where I spent the day, the Garden was
alive with birds several of which were north bound migrants.
I noted here the following: -
  1. Robin two birds & a nest 3 eggs built in wood bin clinging to wire fence.
  2. Gray-checked (or Bicknells?) Thrush. One singing sotto voce. Saw it fairly
well & thought it large enough for true aliciae.
  3. Cat-bird. - One silent bird, very tame. Karl says it has been in
the Garden for some time. He has heard no singing.
  4. Yellow Warbler. - male in full song.
  5. Black & Yellow Warbler. - male singing feebly.
  6. Black-poll warbler Warbler. - male singing just across street in Hubbard Park.
  7. Water Thrush. - Two, one in full rapturous song.
  8. Redstart. - Two males singing.
  9. Red-eyed Vireo. - One male singing.
  10. Yellow-throated Vireo. -  one male singing.
  11. Red-winged Blackbird. - male flying low over garden cocking
  12. Baltimore Oriole. - Two males singing.
  13. Bronzed Grackle. - Three males at pond.
  14. Yellow-billed Cuckoo. - One giving the long series of toc
notes & also cooing.
  15. Chimney Swift. - One flying over the Garden.
  House Sparrows scarce. There were at no time
more than one or two calling. They seem to
be scarce everywhere in Cambridge this spring.