1891.
Dec. 20
Concord, Massachusetts.
Sunday walk to Bow Meadow.
Concord. - Cloudy and mild with no wind. A soft gray
day.
  In the woods with Mr Buttrick from 9 A.M. to 2
P.M. We started up the Estabrook road turned into
the lane past Mr Dutton's house following this to
"Bow meadow". and visiting the old growth mixed
woods to the eastward of the meadow. The owner of
these woods, Mr Clark, tells me that the trees have
not grown perceptably*[perceptibly] since he was a boy (50 years ago)
and that his father said just before he died that
he had observed no change in them since his early
youth. There are white oaks, black oaks, chestnuts,
hickories, and white and pitch pines. Several of the
trees are fully 100 feet tall and many of them 30
or 40 ft. to the first branch. I do not know of an
equally fine piece of mixed growth timber anywhere 
else in Eastern Massachusetts. We saw a Gray Squirrel
in the pines and found the marks of his teeth
on some hickory nuts. Every nut which was thus
marked proved to [?bad] yet the Squirrel had in
no instance bitten through the shell.
[margin]Clark's 
old growth
woods[/margin]
  Blue Jays were nearly as numerous & noisy to-day
as they are in October and Crows were seen and
heard in many different places. We also saw three
Woodpeckers, a Hairy, a Downy, and a Colaptes.
The last which was sitting on the top of an apple
tree calling pi-uk is the only individual which
I have met with here this year. Faxon finds them
in the usual numbers in Belmont.
[margin]Colaptes[/margin]
  Besides the birds just mentioned I saw Chickadees,
Kinglets and a few Tree Sparrows besides one Partridge.