Dendroica coronata
Gallinula martinica
Herodias egretta
MASS. (Middlesex Co.) [Middlesex County, Massachusetts]
1875. April 27 - 1875
April 27. [April 27, 1875] near the place this afternoon I
heard this bird again in exactly the
same place: probably they use a
certain rock, mound, or log every
season. On the way home searched
many likely orchards for owls
nests but although I found signs
in many & in some cases most
likely holes with owls feathers in
& about them I could discover no
nests. I forgot to mention in
connection with my discovery of
the nest yesterday, that there were
no "pellets" under the hole & only
one in the surrounding orchard
though in neighboring ones they
were under nearly every tree.
Saw a little flock of Dend. coronata [Dendroica coronata]
this morning & a single D. palmarum [Dendroica palmarum]
yesterday. The late April birds
are very late this year & very scarce
too. I have seen not a single
Regulus calendula and Hirundo
bicolor is very scarce: I think they
were nearly all killed by the cold
snap last week as before that they
were far more plentiful than they
have been at any time since.
The snow is now entirely gone 
& the frost all out of the ground
Saw a swallow building in one of 
my boxes the morning of writing
this (Apr.28) [April 28, 1875]. A Gallinula [delete]galeula[/delete] martinica 
was caught at Rockport Mass [Rockport, Massachusetts] Apr. 10th [April 10, 1875] &
a Ardea egretta shot at Plymouth Mass [Plymouth, Massachusetts] Apr. 20th [April 20, 1875].