CONCORD 
1911 
Inarch 29 
Plaintive 
bird music 
of 
early spring 
Fox Sparrows 
Song Sparrow s 
Juncos 
Bluebirds 
Cow-bird 
eating 
millet seed 
For two or three hours this morning and again in 
late afternoon the air was filled with the sweet, plaintive 
bird music peculiar to this season. At the Farm it seemed 
to come from everywhere, far and near. Most of it was 
contributed there by Fox Sparrows, Juncos, Song Sparrows 
and Bluebirds. The Fox Sparrows literally swarmed. There 
must have been 50 or 60 of them in the orchard and garden 
and there v;ere almost as many Juncos. Yet I did not meet 
with either species elsewhere. At Ball's Hill I heard 
Song Sparrows and Red-wings singing everywhere about the 
edges of the river meadows. A Phoebe sang all the fore¬ 
noon near the cabin. No birds in the woods, 
j A male Cow-bird appeared at the feeed bed under 
our window this morning and stayed there about item 
minutes eating millet seed in company with Fox Sparrows 
and Juncos. 
