Fox-colored sparrows seen.
March 15—Grass growing in water.
Wood, or croaking frog heard; "the earliest voice of the liquid pools."
March 16—The first phebe bird heard. Gulls and sheldrakes seen.
March 17—Grass green on south bank-sides.
The first flicker and red-wing seen; also a striped squirrel; also some kind of fly.
March 18—The skunk cabbage, in moist grounds, abundantly in bloom, attracting the first honey-bees, who, directed by a wonderful instinct, leave their homes and wing their way, perhaps for miles, to find this first flower. This seems all the more remarkable when it is considered that the honey-bee is an introduced, not a native insect.
March 19—The first shiners seen in the brook.
March 20—Pussy-willow catkins in full bloom.
"The tree-sparrow is perhaps the sweetest and most melodious warbler at present."