1902.
May 4
(No. 2)
  Of the species which arrive at about this time or a
little earlier only the Brown Thrasher, Black & White
Creeper and Towhee seem to have come in any numbers.
Of the others such as the Nashville, Usnea, Black-throated Green and Yellow Warblers, the Redstart, the
Maryland Yellow-throat, the Yellow-throated Vireo and
the Least flycatcher only the advance guards have
as yet reached us.
Migration
  There are apparently as many Red-wings as
usual but I see them oftenest still in large
flocks about the inland fields and not along 
the river, where the meadows are still covered
with water.
Red-wings
  Robins have been very abundant all through
the spring, as they were last year. They sing
but little now except in the early morning.
Pat reports seeing a nest with two eggs yesterday.
Abundance of Robins
  Neither Gilbert or I have seen or heard a
mouse of any kind about the cabins since we
came here three days ago. We have had no rats
at Ball's Hill for two or three years but they
are simply swarming this spring at the farm.
Mice & Rats
  The Hylas were peeping by hundreds in the
meadow at the west end of Ball's Hill and all
over the great Meadows last evening and this.
Leopard Frogs do not seem to have been very noisy
of late. I have heard neither Bull nor Green Frogs as yet.
Frogs
60.