Canoe trip on Concord River.
1891 
April 24
Mass.
Concord. - Clear and warm with light N.W. wind dying 
at sundown.
  To Concord with Bolles by 2.30 train. My two 
canoes with a chest containing canoe tents, cushions etc. 
were sent by express yesterday but we found them 
all in one baggage car when we reached Concord. 
The express man loaded them into his wagon at once 
and we soon had them at the Manse where 
an hour or more was consumed in getting everything 
in its proper place. Finally at about 5 P. M. 
we started up river. There was a swift current 
for the water was still high, indeed over most 
of the river meadows the banks, however, being out. 
The evening was delightful and birds were singing 
in great numbers on every side. At the Manse
we saw a Least Flycatcher; on Judge Hoar's place 
fully 20 Crow Blackbirds, about the pines where 
they breed regularly; at the Martin boxes beyond 
the new stone bridge, seven or eight Martins, 
very merry and musical. On Hurd's hill opposite, 
Meadow Larks and robins were singing and a 
Savanna Sparrow uttering its lisping song. Red-wings 
were scattered all along the margin of the river, 
the males singing on the button bushes, the 
females flying out from the branches of tall 
grass as if from their nests. Over the town 
a few Swifts were wheeling and dashing about.
We made slow progress and the sun set before 
we reach the French farm. At the next bend
we put up our sails and were wafted before 
the dying breeze to Nine Acre bridge. The Robins