May 25 Clear and depressingly warm with S.H. and off by 8 A.M. driving up to Prospect St. when I tied. Shot only 3 birds the best Myzurus q, D. discolor & Vireo Nov. again, saw a q Well. Chrysoptera on the same place when I took the young last Beromun and heard the 2 singing not far off but would not shoot either as I hope to find the nest. Yesterday probably aided up the flight of northern birds as I saw only a very few species to day that do not breed with us, one each of Vireo Nov. My. Canadensis & Passerina (1) D. Striata I forgot; that is still common and I hear their feble songs from one garden as I write (May 26), the transition from Spring to Summer - from leafless woods full of migratory warblers to masses of luxuriant foliage prefilled with thin characteristic Summer Species, has been most Sudden this year. May 22 and the oaks & walnuts were entirely bare and showed almost no signs of the coming verdure that was to shade the ground beneath through the hot months but in three day the change was accomplished, and now the apple blossoms are already beginning to fall. After dinner drove up to the 3rd Shoulder hawks nest on Rock meadow taking Charles to do the climbing. Found the bird sitting and although she walked & around the tree beneath her and talked in loud tones she would not fly through by the armyions Grasings of her neck over the edge of the nest it was plain to