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CONCORD, 
1398 
May 18 
Took a long walk with Deane in the forenoon, starting 
at 8,30 and. getting back to the cabin a little after noon. 
The whole country was swarming ?/ith birds. I have rarely 
ever seen so many even at this season. They were very evenly 
distributed, and we met with no flocks anywhere but every 
thicket, however small, harbored something of more or less 
interest. [The best things met with were a male Bay-breasted 
Warbler, seen near the spring in Mrs. Barrett’s woods, and a 
White-crov;ned Sparrow found among bushes behind Season's 
house. We saw or heard three Blackburnian Warblers (two in 
Lawrence's woods), three Black-throated Blue Warblers, six 
or seven Black and Yellow Warblers, six Wilson’s Black-caps, 
seven Tonagers (one female), four Solitary Vireos (one on 
Holden's Hill, two behind Bensen*s and one near Mrs. Barrett's), 
four Yellow-throated Vireos, several Red-eyes and a host of 
common birds. 
One of the prettiest sights we saw was an ap.nle 
orchard (Mrs. Barret's) in fullest bloom with a score or 
more of Warblers -- Black and Yellow, Black-throated Green, 
Myrtle, Nashville and Parula -- flitting about among the 
clusters of pink and write flowers, probing them for insects 
or honey (?) -- I know not which — and singing freely. This 
I have not seen before for many years and I had almost begun 
to distrust my recollection of its occurrence in the days 
of my boyhood on the old place in Cambridge before the House 
Sparrows came.; 
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