1902
March 23
(No. 4)
just after I had taken it in my hand. I cannot
now remember which.
  I spent most of the afternoon in Pulpit Rock woods.
The wind blew rather strongly & the birds were very
quiet. In the pool on the edge of these woods &
just below the old orchard a dozen or more 
Wood Frog croaked through most of the afternoon.
The sound of their combined voices was exceedingly
like the quacking of ducks. They became silent
before sunset after which the Hylas took their places
and in such numbers as to make the air ring
with their clear peeping.
  Shortly before sunset a Great Horned Owl began
hooting beyond Birch Field in the direction of
Lawrence's old pine woods.
  There was a female White-breasted Nuthatch in 
the big elm by the house just before noon and
again in the late afternoon.
  The grass was vividly green in many places
to-day. I saw winged insects of many kinds
including Blue Bottle Flies, Mud Wasps, and
several species of Butterflies.
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