Concord, Mass.
1902.
March 17
  Cloudy with E. wind & light rain in the forenoon.
  Bluebirds, Robins, Song Sparrows and a Flicker sang
near the farm house for half-an-hour or more early
this morning.
  At 7.20 A.M. Gilbert and I closed the house
and started for Cambridge. On the way to Ball's Hill
(we walked down) we heard only a few birds - two
flickers ("shouting"), one or two Song sparrows and
several Bluebirds. Two or three Red-wings were singing
along the river. 
  On the opposite (Bedford) side, song sparrows were 
simply swarming on Parker's field and we saw 
two pairs of Bluebirds near together at the station
and three more from the car windows as our
train was passing Shady Hill nursery.
  The most interesting bird of all, however, was
a Phoebee. As we were walking along the railroad
track approaching the station I heard, faintly but
unmistakably,  the wree-tit note apparently in 
an orchard just beyond the fence. The next moment
the bird appeared flying close past us down into
the flooded meadow where it alighted in the top most
twig of a small willow. This is the earliest date
on which I have ever noted a Phoebee at Concord.
An early Phoebee
  There was a Tree Sparrow in full song (the only
one I have heard sing this spring) in some bushes
near the railroad embankment.
  I forgot to note in the appropriate connection
that as we were approaching Ball's Hill from Bensen's
we saw a flock of Golden-eyes flying high over the Hill.
Golden-eyes
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