Concord. Mass.
1909.
May 16
(No. 2)
  Swallows were flying low over Great Meadows in
considerable numbers. I must have seen considerably more
than 100 chief Barn & Bank Swallows with a few
White-bellies. I heard the cork-in-the-bottle notes of
Eave Swallows repeatedly but identified only one bird of this
species by sight. There were no Martins here nor higher
up the river. I saw only a very few Swifts.
Swallows on the river meadows.
  Solitary Sandpipers were scattered along the river
as far as I went. I saw at least seven or eight.
They occurred singularly usually on small patches of bare
mud among bushes or under spreading maples or willows.
I passed several within a few yards without seeming to
alarm them whereas others would rise with startled cries
& flit off through the trees or across the river. They are
very sedentary birds often spending hours if not days feeding
on some mud bank only a few yards square.
Solitary Sandpiper