Concord. Mass.
1911.
March 22
(No 2)
[March 22, 1911]

Redpolls

air seemed filled for the space of half a minute or more
by the seou e e songs of Red-polls. I failed to see them 
but judged by the sound of their voices that there were
a large number & that they were on wing. Their singing [was] very sweet.

First Butterflies

  Butterflies were out in numbers about noon and
later, but those I saw were of one kind the large,
ragged-winged, orange-brown species which usually emerges 
from its winter quarters about this time. Gilbert [Robert A. Gilbert] found
several of them fluttering against the inside of the windows
in the wood shed trying to get out.

Deer in Birch Field

  Just after dinner one of the men showed me the
fresh track of a very large Deer in Birch Field.
I think "Larry" must have started it this forenoon.
It had come up by the spring & crossed the road
with long bounds leaving beautifully clear foot prints
("dew claws" showing) in snow & mud.