1891
May 22
Canoe trip on Concord River.
Mass.
Concord. - most of the day cloudy and warm with S.W. wind.
A light shower at 2.40 P.M. followed by a clear sky
and a glorious burst of sunshine, then clouds gathering
and the sunset threatening, the wind shifting to north.
Night cloudy but light, there being a nearly full moon.
  With Spelman took the 2.25 train for Concord
the canoes having been sent yesterday. One proved
to be on the train with us, the other had been
left in Boston but the Expressman promised
that it should follow by the next train and
he kept his word.
[margin]Our start[/margin]
  We had a wait of nearly two hours at the
Manse but as it was during the interval of
sunshine and as the birds were singing exceptionally
freely the time passed rapidly. I noted the following 
species all within sight or hearing of the old house
and nearly all within its grounds:
Merula migratoria, 2; Dendroica aestiva [male]; D. striata, [male];
Vireo olivaceus, [male]; V. gilvus, [male]; Ampelis cedrorum (heard);
Progue purpurea, 1; Tachycineta bicolor, 1; Hirundo horrorum
1; Mimus Carolinensis, [male]-[female]; Carpodacus purpureus, [male];
 Melospiza fasciata, [male]-[female]; Spizella socialis, [male]; Habia ludo-
viciana, [male]; Passer domesticus, 1; Dolichonyx oryzivorus, [male];
Quiscalus aureus, 1; Agelaius phoeniceus, 2 [male]; (Icterus 
galbula, 1 [male]; Sturnella magna, 1 [male]; Tyrannus tyrannus,
2; Sayornis phoebe, 1 [male]; Empidonax minimus, 1 [male];
Coccyzus erythropthalmus, 1; Chaetura pelagica, several.
in all twenty-five species most of which were
singing at the same time. The Cat-birds were
in the lilacs where they bred during the two
summers that I spent on the place.
[margin]Birds about the Manse[/margin]