Concord, Mass.
1914.
March 20-31
(No 4)

forenoon. Most of what I witnessed was
apparently diurnal migration of birds bound still
further north although a small proportion were
probably our local summer resident birds.

First Phoebees [Phoebe]

  The first Phoebees [Phoebes] appeared this day [March 27, 1914]. One
was in full song at sunrise in our door yard
and I heard another about noon on the
Ritchie place.

Red-shoul'd Hawks [Red-shouldered Hawk].

  Red-shouldered Hawks were screaming all day
long and during most of the time one or two were
in sight, soaring high in air over field & wood.
I saw one shoot down at a steep angle, hundreds
of feet, with meteoric speed, screaming all the while.

Starlings

  Two Starlings passed low over our barn at
about 8 A.M. flying northward very swiftly

Antiopa Butterfly

  Saw the first Antiopa butterfly.