1902.
March 22
(No 2)
wings. There are many in the upper rooms of
the farm house & the cellar is swarming with them.
All, of course, must have lived through the winter.
  I saw Butterflies of three different kinds to-day,
Antiopa and two reddish brown ones of different
sizes, one with deeply scalloped wings. I also
started a small moth.
Butterflies & Moth
  Several Wood Frogs were croaking in the afternoon
and a dozen or more Hylas peeped for a short
time just before sunset.
Wood Frogs & Hylas
  As the sun was sinking below the horizon and
sometime before the Robins and Song Sparrows had
ceased singing a Woodcock began peeping in 
the brush grown pasture beyond the brook on the
western side of the road. He did not go up, however,
for fifteen or twenty minutes later, after which he
rose and sang at unusually short intervals. I do
not think that I have ever before heard a bird
that had so rich and powerful a voice. Considered
critically and comparatively it was without question
highly musical, much more so I thought than the 
voice of any Bluebird. I watched the bird through
one entire flight but noted nothing new. It was, 
in fact, the regulation thing in every way. I do
not think, however, that I have ever before known a
Woodcock when singing regularly to alight and peep
in a different place after each descent as this 
bird did. He invariably chose a grassy opening of
Song of the Woodcock
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