1902 
May 17 
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I was out this evening for a couple of hours(from 
5.30 to 7.30) in the blueberry pasture to the westward of 
the farm-house. It is always attractive and just now 
charming beyond description. The bL ueberry bushes are thickly 
hung with the bell-like creamy white blossoms and the birches , 
veiled in a most exquisite gauze-like covering of tender 
green. It is, moreover, the most "birdy" place that I know 
anywhere in this immediate region. Just before and after 
sunset to-night it seemed like a great aviary. The air 
fairly rang with the songs of birds and at times I was 
fairly bewildered by their voices coming from far and near 
in a volume of sound as continuous and ear-filling as that 
of Hylas. « . . 
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There were two Golden-winged Warblers singing on 
the Farm to-day, one at the foot of the hill to the eastward 
of the barn this forenoon, the other in the blueberry pasture 
across the road, all day long. The latter bird ceased singing 
this evening at about 7.20 or before it had begun to grow 
dark, and some time before the Song Sparrows, Field Sparrows, 
and Towhees ceased. Between 7 and 7.20 he gave the flight 
song three times, presumably in the air, although I did not 
once see him in the act. 
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