Concord, Mass.
1911.
May 13
[May 13, 1911]

  Clear & very warm with fresh west wind.

Bird wave of migrants.

  A number of species arrived this morning but no great number
of individuals. Apparently it was the nearest approach to a [?]
bird wave that we have had this month. Hitherto the birds have
been merely dribbling, a very few at a time with a marked
scarcity of all except summer resident kinds. Several northern breeding
Warblers seen before this have not as yet appeared at all and of the
others I have noted only a very few.

Spotted Sandpiper alights on moving boat

  Just as Pat Flannery started out in our dory to cross the
river from Ball's Hill on his way home late this afternoon a
Spotted Sandpiper alighted on the high stern of the boat and
was carried a distance of 15 or 20 feet before taking wing again.
Pat ceased rowing just as the bird dropped on this moving
perch within six feet of him. Just before this he had
given one or two strokes with his oars. He called out to me
immediately afterwards when I heard the Sandpiper but did 
not see it.