Concord, Mass.
1911.
March 15
[March 15, 1911]

Warm rain

  Forenoon rainy with southerly wind. Afternoon sunny with fresh 
west wind. Warm all day. Snow wholly gone from roads and
fields and fast coming out of the ground in many places.

General movements of birds
First Blackbirds, Red-wings, apparently

  The conditions were right for a heavy flight of early
migrants to-day but apparently no such movement took
place. I noticed no increase in the numbers of Robins
and Bluebirds (both are still but sparingly represented)
while I listened in vain for Song Sparrows and
Fox Sparrows both of which should now be here. I
did hear Blackbirds not long before sunset. They were
flying northward and at a considerable distance & only their
cac call notes reached my ears. These sounded like the
calls of Red-wings but I could not be sure nor did
I get my eye on the birds themselves. There were 11
Juncos at our seed bed an increase of 4 birds over the number 
seen yesterday. I think, however, that they are all birds
that have wintered here.