1902.
March 30
(No 2)
  At 9 A.M. I started for Concord where I drove about
for an hour or two seeing a number of Bluebirds, Song
Sparrows & Robins.
  There were a dozen or more Cedar Birds in some
spruce trees on the lawn at the Edwin Barrett place
and most of them were engaged in catching flying
insects something which I do not remember observing
before at this season.
  Gilbert tells me that he saw a Crow flying
into the pines on the Bedford shore opposite the cabin
yesterday forenoon carrying building material in its
bill. It was raining hard at the time.
  During the day I heard four male Phoebees singing
& saw a female with one bird at the farm. The latter
thus far has not begun singing much before seven o'clock
during the mornings that I have spent at the house here.
  I heard the first Leopard Frogs at Concord this
afternoon - a dozen or more of them snoring lustily
in Mill Brook Meadow. Great numbers of Wood Frogs
were croaking all day long in the pool at the foot
of the hill east of the house. They do not seem to
croak often after sunset and never I think after
dark. When a number are engaged at once their voices
sound exceedingly like those of Ducks. The Hylas
began peeping a little before sunset and for the
next half hour hundreds of them were calling in
every direction.
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