Concord, Mass.
1910.
May 26
[May 26, 1910]

  Partly cloudy. Warm with fresh S.W. [southwest] wind changing to N.W. [northwest]
at evening.

Migration

  Arrived: Night-hawk 1 peeping in our big elm at 8 A.M.
  A Black-poll [Blackpoll Warbler] [male] [in full song] & a Black and Yellow Warbler [male] [in full song] the only northern
migrants noted.

Barrett Farm sprayed a second time (oaks, elms, etc.)
Dead Oriole found in road.

  Since our apple trees were sprayed (on May 19) I have
not noticed any falling off in the number of our local birds.
Indeed I feel reasonably sure that thus far they have not
been affected by the poison to any extent. To-day I
had the large elms about the house, the oak grove
behind the barn, the hickories between the barn &
the Bungalow, the lines of tall oaks, elms, etc. leading
from the orchard down towards the woods, and the
borders of the wood roads leading to the Ritchie place
and to Birch Field, very thoroughly sprayed with a
strong solution of arsenate of lead. This, I fear, may lead
to a good deal of damage to the birds. Gilbert picked up
a dead [male] Oriole this morning in the road to Carlisle
where spraying by the town had just been done.