1891
May 24
(No. 3)
Canoe trip on Concord River.
Mass.
Wayland to Concord. - later a brown Bald Eagle
which beat about close over the water for
several minutes apparently looking for fish.
We started him from a tall pine on the
edge of the Owl woods when we passed on
our way towards Concord half-an-hour
afterwards.
  We reached Concord by 5 o'clock and continued
on down river without stopping to Ball's Hill
where we had decided to pass the night
reaching this place a little before sunset.
During the entire distance from the outlet of
Heard's Pond we paddled in all not over a 
mile, our sails serving for the rest of the
way. The passage through the Broad Meadow
below Concord was especially delightful the
sun being well down in the west and the 
birds singing freely. During most of the day
we heard comparatively few owing, doubtless, to
the high wind but now the wind had
subsided to a gentle breeze and the air
sang with bird music. There were many
Bobolinks along the ridge between the river 
and the meadow but not as many, I 
thought, as in former years. Orioles were
fluting in the white maples along the 
banks but we heard no Warbling Vireos.
Spotted Sandpipers were very numerous at
least six or eight being seen or heard.
There were no Solitary Sandpipers here but
we disturbed one yesterday when we landed.
[margin]Solitary Sandpiper[/margin]