1902.
May 14
(No 2)
 The Usnea Warbler was in the apple orchard
which is still glorious with pink & white blossoms.
His song was so very peculiar that I suspected
at first that it was that of some bird little known
to me. I noted it as ur-r-r,ur-r-r,ch. It
was given very hurriedly & the termination was oddly
abrupt.
  A Robin sang for a short time at sunrise
and I heard a Field Sparrow at about 7 A.M
and again just after sunset. The Phoebe sang
a few times during the day & Bluebirds were
heard repeatedly in the forenoon.
  Sometime after sunset as I was in the blueberry
pasture a Golden-winged Warbler uttered his flight
song very near me. I suppose that he was in the
air at the time but I did not see him nor
did I receive any very distinct impression as
to what the song was like beyond the fact that
it began with a medley of unusual notes, some
of which were decidedly muted, and ended with
the ordinary zee, zee-du-du.
  As twilight fell a Whippoorwill, the first that
I have heard this season, began singing in the
distance west of Lawrence's house.
  Hylas were peeping by hundreds in the pool
east of the old orchard both last evening & this.
I have not heard so many before for some time.
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