1891
May 25
(No. 2)
Canoe trip on Concord River.
Mass.
Concord. - started for Concord at 6 o'clock
reading the Manse at 6.45. As we left
our camping ground a Rail was calling
"cutta" in the meadow on the other
side of the river. On Dallin's Hill a
Grass Finch, the only one heard during the
entire trip, was singing, and in the
meadow just below Flint's bridge a Savanna
Sparrow. Last evening I heard one of 
the latter above Red bridge. Bobolinks were
heard this morning in about the same
numbers as yesterday.
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  Grosbeaks and Orioles were scattered all
along the wooded banks of the river
and I think that both are more numerous
this year than usual. There was a Phoebe
singing at Flint's bridge and another at
the Manse. Black-poll Warblers were heard
everywhere. Cuckoos (all Black-bills) were also
heard but not frequently.
  We had to work hard to pack the boats
and their contents in time to take the 
8.12 train for home but the task was
finally accomplished with a few minutes
to spare and I reached Cambridge at 9 A.M.
  During the entire trip we noted only five species
of northern bound migrants viz. Black-poll,
Canadian and Wilson's Black-cap Warblers and
Traill's and the Yellow-bellied Flycatchers. The 
scarcity of Green Herons and the apparent total
absence of Red-tailed Hawks, Carolina Doves and
Indigo Birds were also marked features of the season.