1906.
May 17
  Clear with light, variable winds chiefly from E. & S. W. Ther. 49 degrees - 77 degrees.
  Black-poll Warbler male in full song 6 - 8 A.M. in oaks near house.
  Swainson's Thrush 1 calling about 2 P.M. in grove at rear of barn.
  Indigo Bird. male adult silent, in top of large oak near house, 9 A.M.
  Wood Pewee. male in full song in large trees near house about noon.
  Visited the Barrett Run and Pulpit Rock woods
this morning. There were only a few migrants in either
place. Most of the birds noted were in the trees near
the house especially the apple trees which were in
fullest bloom and simply glorious. In there, feeding among
the snowy blossoms were a number of Warblers including Usnea,
Nashville, Chestnut-sided, Black-throated Green, and a male Wilson's
Black-cap.
  I have usually associated the cooing of Cuckoos with mid summer
and have rarely heard it at all in May or early June but
for the past few days Black-billed Cuckoos have been cooing
about the house at all hours while I have not as yet
heard them give the long succession of notes at all.
  Swallows have appeared in considerable numbers within
the past few days. A pair of Barn Swallows are repairing
the nest that they had last year in the barn attached to
the Bungalow and a pair of White-bellied have again
taken possession of the box over the hen house in which
they are building a new nest. I had supposed that they
reared a brood there last year but on opening the box this
spring I found four mummied young nearly fully grown &
well feathered. What killed them I do not know.