CONCORD. 
1905 
May 3 
It was a great bird day. A big wave of migrants arrived 
last night just in advance or, at least,on the ere st of 
the warm wave, as so often happens. As I was driving* this 
morning I heard an Oriole fluting near the cabin and a little 
later a Bobolink in full ecstatic song across the river. 
Just after breakfast an Oven-bird sang on the hill. Later 
I heard one at the Farm. A Water Thrush singing in Ball’s 
Kill Swamp and a silent male Maryland Yellow-throat near the 
cabin. A Ruby-crowned Kinglet there, too, 7 Peabody Birds 
together in the river path at evening. A Thrasher singing 
across the river. A Cat-bird mewing in the swamp. 
At 8.30 A. M. I started for the Farm. Saw a King¬ 
bird in Bensen 1 s field and near his house a pair of Downy 
Woodpeckers, one of them dmumming on a resonat elm prong. 
A Solitary Vireo was singing gloriously in the old oak woods 
behind his house. 
At the Ritchie place I found a pair of Tree Swallows 
circling about the boces and two or more Barn Swallows 
entering the barn. A Chebec was singing near the house. 
One of the Phoebes was sitting on the nest in the barn cellar. 
A Brown Thrasher and a Vesper Sparrow singing across the 
road. A Bluebird flitting about the ploughed land. The 
tulips and hyacinths in front of apple cellar in full bloom. 
There were only a few birds (mostly Chippies and 
White-throats) near the farm-house but in the woods near 
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