Concord, Mass.
1907
April 10
  The morning dawned cloudy but but the
clouds were thin and there was a light, steady
wind. During the forenoon the sun showed
dimly at times and we saw patches of blue sky
but it began to rain just after dinner changing
to snow later in the afternoon when the wind came
from the north. When I went to the Farm at
5 P.M. I found the snow six inches deep mostly
everywhere with no bare ground to be seen except
under dense pines. Many of the trees were heavily
loaded with snow this morning and some of them
had broken under its weight. The tall birches in
front of the cabin had been bent until their
tops rested on the ground or water. All the trees
had freed themselves from the snow by noon but
many of them did not at once resume their
normally erect position and some of them are
still much arched.
Weather continues stormy\Wintry conditions all day.
Trees injured by snow
  The insect-eating birds are having a trying time
I fear. I saw no Phoebes nor Swallows to-day
but Gilbert noted a Yellow Palm Warbler near the cabin.
The Sparrows are all right of course but most of
those that were here yesterday had disappeared this
morning. Where can they have gone? Not further
north, surely, in the face of such a wintry storm
as raged through most of last night. It is quite
possible and, I think, probable, that they drifted before
it southward perhaps as far as Connecticut. In 
that case they almost certainly accomplished a
second stage in a southward spring migration
for I am satisfied that most of them reached
Phoebes & Swallows disappear.
Most of the Sparrows hordes also missing.
Have they not migrated Southward?
They came, I think, from the North.