1910.
June 26
(No 2)
[June 26, 1910]

the spraying began and certainly settled for
the season (there were some north bound migrants
passing then) I have not missed one although
I have kept a close watch on all the mated
pairs. Their numbers have exceeded anything I
have ever known here before and their singing
has been a constant source of delight to me.
Never before, I think, have I had such a
feast of bird music, in one season, in eastern
Massachusetts. It still continues almost unabated
although a few species like the Chestnut-sided
Warbler, the Redstart, the Grosbeak and the 
Oriole are fast lapsing into comparative silence.
But their defection is largely if not quite made
good by the fact that the Bluebird, the Robin
the Catbird, the Song Sparrow & the Field Sparrow