1907
April 11
Concord, Mass.
  Forenoon cloudy; afternoon clear and warm. Light
N.W. wind all day.
  The snow wasted rapidly after the sun came out
but at evening it still covered most of the country
except on southern exposures where the bare ground
had appeared in many places. In the woods the snow 
was everywhere fully three inches deep at sunset when
an icy crust was beginning to form.
Fine weather again.
Country still snow covered
  Yesterday, as I noted in the journal, most of the
birds had apparently disappeared, as I thought migrating
southward. Today they were back again as numerously
as during the early part of the late storm. Indeed
the country was literally flooded with them. They
were scattered about everywhere throughout the woods 
as well as fields. This statement applies chiefly to
Robins, Fox Sparrows and Juncos which I met with
in countless numbers during my afternoon walk
to Davis Hill, through Prescott's pines and back by
way of Bensen's pasture. When I reached Pine Ridge
and the flat woods behind Ball's Hill, just before
sunset, both places reminded me of a great aviary.
Return of the birds
Their extraordinary abundance
  Robins, Fox Sparrows and Juncos were going to roost
in almost every evergreen tree over this entire tract,
singing and calling to one another as they sat on 
their perches or flitted from place to place. Never 
before have I found them in anything like such
numbers in these woods.
  Phoebes reappeared this afternoon in their usual
numbers & in the best of spirits, apparently. Where can
they have gone? The river front of Ball's Hill was
Phoebes return