Concord, Mass.
1909.
March 26.
  A gray day with occasional brief gleams of sunshine.
Cool but not frosty, with fresh west wind.
  Took a walk about the farm just after breakfast,
going through Pulpit Rock woods & beyond. Not a bird song of
any kind heard. Saw 2 Chickadees in a flock in Birch Field. Redpolls
heard overhead on two different occasions. Gilbert saw eight
Juncos near the well across the road. A Song Sparrow spent
most of morning in the lilac bushes behind the house & a female
Downy came there to feast on the suet which she had visited
for the past two days but which thus far has attracted no
other birds. Richardson & his gypsy moth men saw a flock
of about 20 Geese fly over the Farm at 9 A.M. when I was
in the house. 
Birds scarce & silent
  I went to Ball's Hill in mid afternoon via Birch Field,
Bensen's & Pine Ridge returning via Holden Hill & Howe's pasture.
A more nearly birdless walk is not often to be had at this
season. I saw 2 Chickadees in a flock, 1 Kinglet & 1 Bluebird & heard
Redpolls & Red-winged Blackbirds once. The country seemed
very dreary & lifeless yet it was not cold nor very windy.
  The Golden-crested Kinglet at Ball's Hill was flitting
about among some oaks apparently quite alone. At short
intervals it gave the usual t't (or ch't) tsee-tsee quickly
followed by tzee-zee-zee. One must be very near to hear
the low, lisping prefix to the first pair of tzees. I am not
sure it is given always. I took down the notes above
entered on the spot. They, too, vary in number & sequence
if I remember rightly but they were always the same
with this bird to-day.
Call notes of Golden crest Kinglet.