1902.
May 4
  Forenoon brilliantly clear; afternoon cloudy with
chill S.E. wind; light rain 5 - 7 P.M.
  I did not awake until nearly seven o'clock this
morning & then the birds had nearly ceased singing.
At breakfast time I heard a Redstart in front
of the cabin and soon afterwards saw the bird, a
fine old male no doubt the one that has nested
here for several years past.
First Redstart
  Another arrival was a Yellow-throated Vireo which
I heard singing fitfully in the large oaks on
Holden's Hill.
First Yellow-throat Vireo
  Still another was the Spotted Sandpiper of
which Herbert Holden saw six on his way down
river.
First Spotted Sandpipers
  Mr. Holden also tells me that Quail are numerous
this spring in the eastern part of Concord. I
hear only one in this neighborhood - the bird
at the farm.
Quail
  Red-shouldered Hawks were making the air
ring with their wild voices this morning in
the direction of Holden's Hill but I looked in
all the large trees there without discovered a nest.
I do not think they have bred there, or, indeed,
anywhere on my land for several years past
yet they visit my woods daily. I started one
the other evening from the pines in the Glacial Hollow.
It was so nearly dark at the time that I think
the bird had gone to roost there.
Red shoul'd Hawks.
  Small birds were unmistakeably scarce this
morning, more so, indeed, than for several days past.
Few small birds about.
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