Concord, Mass.
1914.
March 17
(No 3)
[March 17, 1914]

  Reached our farm house at 12.15 noon. Shortly
after this the drizzling rain, which had been falling,
ceased and the sun shone bright & warm. The
remainder of the day was cloudless, windless and
altogether spring-like. I was out, walking about the
place from 3 to 6 P.M. Plenty of snow & ice in
evergreen woods but fields mostly bare except for
wasting drifts on northly [notherly] exposures especially those
shaded by brush and stone walls. Mud or water
everywhere and ploughed lands almost impassible.
Heard three voices characteristic of early spring: -
the ringing screams of a pair of Red-shouldered
Hawks soaring high over the orchard and over
Pulpit Rock woods, the shouting of a Flicker in
Birch Field, the raucous croaking of a Wood
Frog (only one) in a pool at the edge of the