1891
May 23
(No. 8)
Canoe trip on Concord River.
Mass
Concord to Wayland. - interest and then to sit down
with us for along talk finally, just before leaving,
giving us permission to burn as much wood as
we pleased and to take refuge under his roof if 
the night proved cold or wet.
  Oven Birds sang frequently after dark as long as 
we were awake and Black-billed Cuckoo at
occasional intervals while every now & then we heard
a Maryland Yellow-throat, the first and last
giving their flight songs from which I infer that 
they rose into the air although this does not
certainly follow. The night was superb a nearly
full moon silvering the water and lighting up
the openings in the surrounding woods while
the wind had died to a gentle breeze that
rustled the foliage soothingly. We were asleep
by ten o'clock.
[margin]Birds singing at night[/margin]
  Red-shouldered Hawks seem to have replaced
the Red-tails within the last two years along 
the entire route which we traveled to-day.
They were frequently in sight or hearing while
not a single Red-tail came under our notice.
[margin]Red-tails replaced by Red-shouldered Hawks.[/margin]
Red-winged Blackbirds are about as numerous
as they were last year but certainly much
fewer in numbers than in 1886 and 1887.
Bobolinks were quite up to the standard of
their former abundance and were rarely out
of our hearing the entire distance between
Concord and Wayland but no Meadow Larks
were heard anywhere between these two towns on
the immediate outskirts of which they are common.
[margin]Red-winged Blackbirds[/margin]
[margin]Bobolinks[/margin]