Cambridge, Mass.
1902
May 24
  Partly cloudy, oppressively warm & sultry; heavy
thunder showers at evening.
  I went to Cambridge this morning. On the way 
to the station at Lancaster I heard a number of Black-polls
singing in the big elms that shade the village streets.
Several others were singing in the elms over Brattle Street
in Cambridge as I walked up from the Thayers. There
was a Wood Pewee in the Smith place and I heard
a Yellow-throated Vireo there and another in the big elm
in front of Le Baron Brigg's house.
  Our garden was glorious with blossoming hawthorns, (both 
white and pink) lilacs, dogwood, red bud and Helesia, Azaleas 
etc. It was also simply alive with birds many of which
were north-bound migrants. Besides the resident Robins
(one, possibly two, pairs), Cat birds (one pair), Yellow warblers
(one pair), Redstarts (one pair in the lindens) Red eyed Vireo
(one singing in the lindens), Chippies, the male singing, the female
sitting on her nest in one of the little blue spruces on the 
lawn), Orioles (one pair), Rose-breasted Grosbeak (male in full
song in the jungle where W. Dean has heard him daily for
some time) and Yellow-billed Cuckoo (one singing in the jungle
and presumably a settled bird) there were a Gray-cheeked
Thrush, a Swainson's Thrush, a Black & Yellow Warbler (apparently
a male but silent), a Black-poll warbler (singing), A Wilson's 
Black-cap (male in full song), a Canadian Warbler (female)
and a King bird (perching on the tops of the taller trees
in the jungle & very noisy). Besides these sixteen species
a female Black-throated Warbler had been seen earlier in 
the morning, bathing in the pond, by W. Dean.
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