Concord - Cambridge, Mass.
1907
April 12 
  Clear, calm, mild.
  There were only a few birds about the cabin this
morning but the open country on the other side of
the river was alive with them when I passed through
it on my way to the West Bedford Station and
I saw them in undiminished numbers, and literally
everywhere, from the car windows on the way to
Lexington and, indeed, nearly to Arlington. Robins
Fox Sparrows and Juncos made up the bulk of
the birds seen. The Sparrows and Juncos were
quite as numerous in the middle of wide grass
or cultivated fields as in the bordering thickets.
While I was waiting for the train at the station
their songs came incessantly to my ears from far
and near on every hand.
  Miss Mary Blatchford tells me that she saw
large numbers of Fox Sparrows and Juncos at Leicester
in Worcester County, Mass., during the snow storm on
the 9th. Manly Hardy writes me that at Brewer,
Maine, "it began to snow on Tuesday 9th and
snowed some 4 inches. It snowed all night and the
next day there was good 12 inches of new snow. It
has snowed about all the time since (his letter is dated
on the 11th) melting as it has fallen. The birds, largely
Juncos with Song and Tree Sparrows and a few
Fox Sparrows, have come into the close yards in
great numbers. We began to feed them two days ago
and have put out several quarts of cracked corn
& oats, also bread & flax seed. I have had from 25
to 50 around all the time and Fannie has about