1902.
May 12
  Forenoon clear and warm with light S.W. wind.
After noon at first hazy, finally becoming cloudy, with
S.E. to S.W. wind.
  Tennessee Warbler, a male singing freely at the usual
short intervals in the Barrett run nearly opposite the foot
of the lane that leads from the barn. The beginning of the
song (pitshy - pitchy - pitchy) was normal but its terminal
half was so like that of a Nashville Warbler that I did
not feel quite sure of the bird until I got my glass
on him. He was in high plumage with very blue head
& pure white (ie ashy-white) under parts. He was in
the top of a gray birch at first; save afterwards he
flew into a tall oak and finally into the blossoming
apple orchard where we lost him. This is the
first Tennessee Warbler I have ever noted in the Ball's
Hill region.
  Bay-breasted Warbler. - Among the old oak woods
which lie between the Barrett farm & the road that leads
from the school house to Bensens are a few good-sized
white pines. As we were passing one of these trees at
about 9 A.M. I heard the unmistakeable zeezy - zeezy - zee
of a Bay breast & presently discovered the bird, a fine
male, not, as it turned out, in the pine but in
a neighboring oak the leaves of which were just beginning
to unfold.
  The third & last arrival for the day was the
Canadian Warbler of which we heard a male singing in Davis's Swamp.
Perhaps I should add to the list a solitary Cedar Bird
seen in the blueberry pasture at the farm - the first since March.
74