1903.
May 31
(No 2)
breeding in both places. Faxon tells me that they
have nested in the very middle of Lexington & I have
heard them separately in or near over garden in
Cambridge. Their numbers in the country districts
far surpass anything that either Faxon and I have
ever witnessed before. I am inclined to think that
there are twice as many as there were before they
were decimated  by the freeze in 1894-95.
  My neighbor Edwin Lawrence sprayed his extensive
apple orchards thoroughly with Paris green when the
trees were in blossom two weeks or more ago. I
cannot see that it has made any difference in
the numbers of any of the common orchard harvesting
birds. Certainly they are as numerous on his farm
as our own at the present time. The Yellow Warblers
& Yellow-throated Vireos have diminished perceptibly
within the past fortnight but that may be due to
the passing on of migrants bound further north.
One of my men picked up a Yellow throated Vireo
dead on Davis Hill this morning but no one,
so far as I am aware, has been spraying
near them.
  Oriole & Bobolinks are comparatively scarce this
year. I think the former have fallen off fully 50%
since last season & the latter even more.