Concord, Mass.
1911.
March 19
[March 19, 1911]

Spring-like morning
First Bluebirds.
First Song Sparrow
Robins
Pheasant
Buteo lineatus

  Most of the day has been cloudy with chill S.E. [southeast] wind
and it is snowing hard this evening but the early morning
was delightful and the most spring-like one thus far this
year. The sun shone bright and warm quickly melting the
hoar frost that had gathered over night and up to about
ten o'clock when there was little or no wind. Bluebirds were
warbling far and near in every direction, Chickadees making
the phoebe call, a Nuthatch root-root-root ing near the 
house, a Downy drumming (for the first time) in the big elm.
Crows cawing and Blue Jays screaming in the distance.
I started for Ball's Hill about 8.30. Heard my first
Song Sparrow in the brushy ground near Mr. Howe's hen house.
Came upon six Robins and a Junco in his lane &
heard a Pheasant crowing in the meadow to which it
leads. On reaching Holden's Hill heard two Red-shouldered 
Hawks screaming wild & shrill & soon saw them, one [female]