1902.
May 3
  Cloudy clearing about 4 P.M. Light rain in early
morning. Wind E. - cool.
  Arrivals. - Yellow Warbler, 1 singing at 6 P.M. on W. Bedford
shore opposite Ball's Hill; Nashville Warbler, 2 singing
in woods on farm; Usnea Warbler, 1 singing in Prescott's pines;
Least Flycatcher, one at Ball's Hill, another in an apple orchard
at the farm, both calling whit. Maryland Yellow-throat, 1
singing at morning & evening near the stone boat house.
  Birds sang freely through the forenoon. They did
not seem to be as numerous as they were yesterday.
At evening only a few Robins & a Swamp Sparrow song.
  While at the farm this forenoon I heard a Dove
cooing and presently saw the bird perched in the top of
a tall tree on the road just below the house. He was
serenading his mate who was feeding on the ground
in the ploughed field in front of the house. As I stood
listening to the male it struck me that the solemnity
and impressiveness of this Dove's cooing is due not so
much to the quality of his voice as to the carefully
measured intervals between the notes. I noted this rendering
of the cooing: - oo-erk-oo; coo, coo. Sometimes the bird
gave only the first three notes and occassionally only
 the oo-erk. While coo-ing he sat rather erect but in
an easy attitude. I could not see that he accompanied
the notes by any movements of the head or neck.
  The Phoebee at the farm was sitting to-day.
  Several apple trees has opened many of their blossoms.
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