1902.
May 2
  Brilliantly clear, the early morning cool with light
north wind, the middle of the day calm and hot,
the afternoon cool again with fresh E. wind.
  With the first signs of daybreak a Thrasher began
singing near the cabin. Before the light had become at
all strong he was followed successively by a Phoebee, Song
Sparrow, Robin, Swamp Sparrow, Towhee, Bittern, Blue Jay
and Chickadee. With broad daylight Crow and Red-wings
joined in. Still later I heard Yellow rumps & a
Peabody Bird. There was but little singing between sunrise 
and 7 A.M.
  I spent the forenoon at the farm, walking both ways,
the afternoon in the woods between Ball's & Davis's Hills.
The country was alive with birds. I noted all the Swallows
and heard singing three Brown Thrashers, five Towhees,
three Field Sparrows, the Grass Finches, a dozen or more
Black & White Creepers, two Black-throated Green Warblers,
three Oven-birds and three Song Sparrows.
  There was a Quail at the farm somewhere in the
blueberry pasture west of the road. After calling a few
times he gave a dozen or more repetitions of bob, white.
  I saw no less than four Black Snakes, two of them
large ones. One of them glided swiftly down a hillside
into a swamp and after I had kept still for a few
minuted returned pausing every now & then and raising
his head at least a foot above the ground to
look and listen.
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