Belmont, E. Lexington & Waverly.
1900.
June 8
(No 2)
  The only place where I found Bobolinks numerous
(or indeed at all save at Fresh Pond where I saw one) was
on the summit of the hill above the Belmont spring.
Here five males were hovering over a large field of
English grass & singing delightfully.
Bobolinks
  Wellington Lawn produced nothing of interest save another
Golden-winged Warbler. This species has evidently increased
& spread in the Belmont Region within the past fifteen 
years. It did not used to occur at any one of the three
localities where I have found it this week.
Golden wing
Warbler.
  A perfect mania for burning brush along roadsides &
stone walls seems to have prevailed in the Belmont region
the past spring for the south side of once charming
Wellington Lawn had been thus disfigured and the Rock
Meadow willows along the greater part of the north side
of the causeway are blacked and practically dead as
the result of a recent fire. They appeared to shelter few
birds but throughout the whole extent of the meadow
itself Red-wings were as abundant as of yore.
Yellow Warblers were also very numerous in many places
in this locality as were also Song sparrows. Strange
to say we did not see nor hear a Cat-bird or Rose-breasted
Grosbeak during the forenoon. Cuckoos, chiefly Yellow-birds,
were fairly numerous. The Barn Swallows have apparently
quite deserted the Brown farm at the cross roads (there
are now no openings by which they can enter the
old barn) and the only Swallow observed during our
drive was a White-belly.
Roadsides 
despoiled of
their shrubbery
Rock Meadow
Red-wings
Yellow-W.
Tree Swallow
  My general impression was that few if any birds
have increased & very many have decreased within
that region during the past fifteen years.
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