1902.
May 7
  Cloudy most of the day clearing at sunset.
Forenoon cool with strong S.W. wind. Afternoon calm
and sultry. Evening cool again with brisk N.W. wind.
Heavy rain before daybreak  this morning.
  Birds continue to straggle in a few at a time
from the South. The only arrivals noted today were
a Tanager which began singing soon after 1 P.M. on
Ball's Hill and kept it up at intervals until evening
and two Cat Birds, one of which was singing, that
I found after sunset in Pine Park. The numbers
of Yellow-rumps remained about the town as
yesterday but all the White-throated Sparrows
which were here yesterday had departed this morning.
Arrivals
  Our Phoebe has become almost totally silent
these past few days. I heard him singing today
for only a few minutes in the early morning.
On examining the nest this afternoon I found
that it contained three eggs.
Phoebees nearly silent
  During the calm, sultry period this afternoon
all the birds in the Ball's Hill region seemed 
to be singing at once and with exceptional
spirit and joyousness.
  I have thought for several years past that our
Grass Finches do not sing nearly so freely and well
in Spring as during the month of July but the bird
in Benson's pasture has been pouring out his very soul
from early morning to late evening ever since I arrived
here on the 1st of this present month.
Grass Finches singing freely all day long.
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