Middlesex Co., Mass. [Middlesex County, Massachusetts]
1875.
May 25 [May 25, 1875] Clear and oppressively warm with S.W. [southwest] wind
Off by 8 A.M. driving up to Prospect St. where
I tied. Shot only 8 birds the best My. pusillus [Myiodioctes pusillus]
[female], D. discolor [Dendroica discolor] [male], Vireo Nov. [Vireo noveboracensis] a pair. Saw a [female]
Hel. chrysoptera [Helminthophila chrysoptera] in the same place where
I took the young last summer, and
heard the [male] singing not far off but
would not shoot either as I hope to 
find the nest. Yesterday probably
ended up the flight of northern birds
as I saw only a very few species to day
that do not breed with us, one each of
Seirus Nov. [Seiurus noveboracensis]. My. Canadensis [Myiodioctes canadensis] et pusillus [Myiodioctes pusillus] ([female])
D. striata [Dendroica striata] I forgot; that is still common
and I hear their feeble songs from our
garden as I write (May 26). The transition
from spring to summer - from leafless
woods full of migrating warblers to masses
of luxuriant foliage peopled with their
characteristic summer species, has been most
sudden this year. May 22nd the oaks &
walnuts were entirely bare and showed
almost no signs of the coming verdure
that was to shade the ground beneath
through the hot months, but in three days
the change was accomplished, and now
the apple blossoms are already beginning 
to fall. After dinner drove up to the red
shouldered hawk's nest on Rock meadow taking
Charles to do the climbing. Found the bird 
sitting and although we walked around
the tree, beneath her and talked in loud
tones she would not fly though by the
anxious craning of her neck over
the edge of the nest it was plain to