Concord, Massachusetts.
1891.
Oct. 25
Concord. - Clear, the early morning cold ([?} 29 [degrees] at
7 A.M., the lowest point it has reached here this autumn) 
in forming and the ground freezing, but the middle
of the day very warm and pleasant.
[margin]Hunting with a Kodak[/margin]
  Shortly after breakfast I took Don and a
Kodak camera and started for the "Dawsdale" woods
where I saw the Quail last night. I examined
with great care the spot whence they started but
could find no proofs that they had really gone to
roost there although the place was in every way
exactly suited to their requirements. The dog found
no scent in this swamp to-day but not long
after I had left it and crossed the meadow to
Pratt's nursery he came on the  track of the bevy
on a sunny knoll and followed it down into
a thicket of young poplars where I finally started
the birds. There were only seven of them. Thew flew
across the meadow into the woods where I looked
for them a little while in vain. When Don was
roading this scent in the nursery I photographed
him several times.
  After leaving this place I roamed through woods
and across meadows and fields for an hour or
more and then returned to the house. Grasshoppers
and crickets were numerous and active in the 
fields and I saw several butterflies. In Mr. Derby's 
orchard I found in one hole the remains of a
Jumping Mouse evidently taken there by a Screech Owl
and in another at least three quarts of hickory nuts
the store of a Red Squirrel probably. I saw three
Downy Woodpeckers, a Tree Sparrow & a Garter Snake.
[margin]Scops & Jumping Mouse[/margin]