"were all there, in a low undertone. I wonder if all birds begin so after migration? The canary does after moultling. The wister came in force, and today they are having a great song. It looks as if they had no forerunners, but all came themselves to see if the Spring had come. Saw a sapsucker. He was on a hickory, busy looking over a ring of holes around a limb, made a year ago, at least. These fellows are the door keepers to the grand concert hall of the feathered tribe, and punch holes in the bark of trees, just to keep tully; it costs nothing to enter. The glass was 83 at noon. The grass grew rapidly, the peepers could hardly wait for night to come. The wind combs N.E. at around 4 was cooler.