Concord, Mass.
1910.
May 19
[May 19, 1910]

Birds at Farm

  Clear & cool with fresh N.W. [northwest] wind.
  Late yesterday afternoon and early this forenoon
I went over the Farm very thoroughly with a view 
to getting as nearly complete a list as possible of
the birds that have settled here for the summer for 
purposes of comparison with a list to be made a 
few days after the grounds have been sprayed. The
men began this work this morning, using a hand pump
barrel sprayer in a wagon and arsenate of lead
mixed with well water in the proportion of.
  I have never known birds more numerous
or in greater variety (save for the almost entire absence
of north-bound migrants) than they have been on both
these days. I noted only those which were seen or
heard within 200 yards or so of the house, mostly in
the elms, the orchard, the lines of trees along the lane
the berry pasture & the outskirts of the bordering woods.
The list follows on the next page.