1902.
May 5
  Heavy rain just before daybreak. Most of day cloudy
with cool W. wind. Calm and sultry at evening.
  Rose breasted Grosbeak, male sang once rather feebly & brokenly at
9 A.M., in swamp behind Ball's Hill; Solitary Vireo, one in 
full song at 8 A.M. on Ball's Hill; Veery one seen by Gilbert
near cabin, one calling at evening in Ball's Hill Swamp; King bird
one performing song flight at evening near cabin; Swainson's thrush,
one giving the peenk note and the whining call among dense
young pines on Pine Ridge at 5 P.M.
Arrivals
  Of the birds which have been noted before there seemed
to be no increase in numbers to-day.
  Birds sang freely most of the day. Two Thrashers gave
me almost a surfeit of their fine music. One was across 
the river near the Stone boat house, the other on the
edge of Pine Park.
  Gilbert discovered the remains of a male Red-wing
which had evidently been killed and eaten by a Hawk &
which lay scattered about on the ground in a cluster of
dense white pines behind Ball's hill. There were nearly
all the feathers (including some of the scarlet ones from
the epaulets) and the head or, at least, the bill and
fragments of the skull which had evidently been crushed
to expose the brains which had been removed &, no doubt,
eaten.
 Although the evening was perfectly calm & oppressively
warm upwards of thirty Robins assembled to roost in
the swamp behind Ball's Hill. They kept up a constant
fluttering as they settled themselves among the blueberry
bushes & five or six of the males were often signing at once.
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