Concord, Mass.
1910.
May 23
[May 23, 1910]
  Cloudy with warm, moist S. W. [southwest] wind.

No migrants passing now

  The migrations still "hang fire" if, indeed, they be not over after
having shown us the merest trace of what we usually see during this
month. Not a single northern breeding species has come under my
notice since the 21st & Mr. Dexter reports the same experience in the
neighborhood of Concord village.

Song of the Redstart.

  As I listened, this morning, to a Redstart singing in the
oak grove behind our farm it occurred to me that a novice might
well have thought he was hearing at least three or four Redstarts. For
the bird kept varying his song and it was sufficiently ventriloqual
in character to seem to come from several different directions
in the course of a minute or two.

Carolina Doves in Green Field.

 Carolina Doves have been very scarce here this spring and I have
not yet heard one coo. But I had the pleasure of seeing a pair 
and a single bird flying low over Green Field this afternoon.
There is much freshly ploughed land there now & that always attracts them.