Concord, Mass.
1912.
April 3
[April 3, 1912]

  When I awoke this morning soon after daybreak
it was snowing thick and fast and the ground was
white yet a Phoebe was singing loud and joyously
near the cabin. I heard no other birds at that
hour but later in the morning the Fox Sparrows
began and flooded the air with their delightful
music during the remainder of the day. At
breakfast time we counted ten, at supper time
there were fifteen feeding on suet thrown out for them.
 There were three Phoebes together at the shed
early in the afternoon. Two were incessantly
quarrelling and singing and chasing the third, a
silent bird no doubt a female.
  Had a chat with George Holden as he was
passing in his hunting canoe. He says Muskrats
are very scarce. He has shot 23 this spring, 
getting ten one day.