1891
April 6
Mass.
Concord. - Clear with drifting masses of clouds. Wind
N. W. to S. W. to N. W.  [?] 28 degrees at sunrise.
  to concord with Bolles by 6:36 A. M. train. On
the way over to Porters Bolles saw three birds in
the Observatory ground which he is nearly sure were
Pine Linnets. They were bending down over larch cones
extracting the seeds.
  On reaching the Manse we took my Rushton
boat from the boat house where it has lain
all winter and prepared to start down river. 
While thus engaged we heard [delete]and[/delete] or saw a pair
of White bellied Nuthatches, a pair of Downy Woodpeckers,
several Song Sparrows & Redwings, one Meadow Lark, robins,
and, in the distance, Fox sparrows. The Woodpeckers
were on the river bank. the male drummed several times
when the female approached & joined him. The Nuthatches
were creeping and scrambling about on a large ash
near the North wall.
  We paddled down river to Hunt's Pond hearing many
Song Sparrows and one little party of Tree Sparrows
in full song. At Hunt's Pond we landed and walked
back over the fields to a hollow where we found
a flock of fully fifty Red-wings, all males. On
seeing us they flew into an oak and at once
break out into a singing chorus or medley of singing as
is their habit at this season. At a little distance
some of their notes resembled so thoroughly the
honking of geese that we both thought at
first that Geese were really calling in the
distance.
  We landed again at Ball's Hill which we climbed.