1891
April 5
(No.2)
Mass.
Cambridge to Concord. - into a stubble field. Every few
minutes a Fox Sparrow would begin its divine
song but before it had half finished another
would join in, then another, and still others,
followed by Tree Sparrows until a dozen or more of both birds
were singing at once, the trilling of several Juncos
coming in in the intervals like a low accompany-
ment*[accompaniment]. I know of nothing finer in the way of
bird music than one of these outbursts heard,
as I heard them to-day, with the warm April
sunshine lighting up the brown fields and the 
bracing north-west wind piping in the base
tree tops.
  While on our way to Concord just as we were
entering the village of Lincoln we saw a 
Broad-winged Hawk soaring overhead at a
moderate height. Its peculiar shape and
markings made it quite unmistakeable. A
little further on a fine old male Marsh Hawk
appeared, beating a meadow on the left of
the road, following a ditch for some distance &
keeping much of the time below the level of
its banks. This bird appeared fully as white as
an adult Herring Gull.
  We left Concord at 3 P.M. and returned to 
Cambridge by way of the direct road to
Waltham past Walden Pond. Nothing of
peculiar interest was noticed until just
as we were passing the Payson place when
on the opposite side of the road just
over the wall I saw what I took at