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Arrivals. Warblers nest
Antrostomus vociferus, Sar. abbre'd: Dings at night.
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1876 Sunday
May 28 Clear and very warm with W. wind.
Spent the day about the house taking a short sail out on the lake in the forenoon and a walk over on the State road just before sunset. Arrivals were O. Striata D. Pennsylv. O. & Blackburnian & Antrostomus vociferus & Dinging in the morning. Prophet robins & around Godwin's martin box, Heres Allevans over & highly Ampelis cedrorum flock of about 20 flying over high up. Heard a Bayonet fescous singing near the house this morning but did not see him afterwards. The vegetation has taken a grand start to day. This evening visited the meadow wood (?) and wild cherry in bloom and found some beautiful Philyrae. Found a kingfisher just in a bank of gravel exposed by digging out a drain, but as both bird even flying about and freshly exposed earth lay at the mouth of the hole I did not judge it time to investigate.
This evening Godwin caught about twenty trout with worm and minnows.
Night hawked over very numerous at dusk flying about through the door yard alford and a few (some) high up in air. The Thrushes were singing anywhere at sunset and I heard two J. pallasi on a particular fine performance. A winter green sing directly behind the house and one or twice I have heard him in a wood trap in the open near the barn.