"Hear the first white bellied swallow today, they are common our earliest migrants, and migrate twice, little busy bodies. They care for no so familiar as their smaller cousins, the red-bellied. Mar. 27. It is cooler, the voice very heavy, Birds are quiet. There is none new but the Kestrel, the first hawk I have seen, and others several have been killed in S.S. He is making the dead lints hollow in Geo Phil's, his home, darting out after lings Yes, it flaps back with his sharp three-kneed wings. Mar. 28. Still disagreeable, but getting warmer in the P.M., the Kestrel is still here, but no bird movement in progress, and crows, about 100 rooted in Geo. Phil's. pines. Mar. 29. First regular flight of birds, 8 jays and 2 youngst white leaders, singing all morning.