Cambridge, Mass.
1909
Nov. 2 [November 2, 1909]
  Alternating clouds & sunshine. Very warm for
the season, with fresh, damp south-west wind.
  A Carolina Wren in full song in our garden this
afternoon. I heard it first about 4 o'clock when its
clear, loud notes came to my ears with perfect distinctness
as I sat writing in my study. After they had been
repeated half-a-dozen times or more, at the usual short
intervals, I went to the first door of the Museum and
looking out saw the bird for an instant just as it flew 
from the benzoin bush by the pond, in which it had
been perched, into the lilacs at the rear of our house.
Half-an-hour later it sang again, this time a different
form of song from that used at first. Still later, as twilight
was falling, it uttered the low scolding chatter a few times. 
Gilbert, who listened with me to the song this afternoon, is
very sure that he heard the same notes in the Garden
about October 12th. On that occasion he saw the bird
utter them and had a good view of it. He spoke 
about it to me when I returned from England on the
14th but as he said he thought it was a Winter Wren
the matter did not interest me much. He now says that
the birds struck him as being much too large for either
a House or Winter Wren. I had no time to look
up birds in the Garden on the 14th or 15th and on the
afternoon of the 16th I went to Concord where I spent
the following two weeks, returning on November 1st. During
that day I heard Chickadees & White Throats in the Garden
& saw a Robin & a Golden-crest there. H. W. Henshaw saw
a Hermit Thrush. There were two Robins, a Hermit, a
Golden-crest, six Chickadees & one or two White-throats this
afternoon. Saw fresh Owl excrement under the catalpa tree.
Carolina Wren in our garden
On the morning of Nov. 3, about six o'clock, H. W. Henshaw heard
the Carolina Wren in full song in the Garden for some ten or fifteen
minutes. It was not certainly noted after this although I
thought I heard it scold once, about noon, on the 4th.