Concord, Mass.
1893
April 6  
  Clear and chilly with piecing N.E. wind. About four
inches of snow fell [yesterday] last night and it was
not wholly gone from N. slopes this morning.
  I went to Cambridge yesterday morning and
returned to Concord this afternoon by the 4.17 train
from W. Somerville. As I walked across the causeway
the sun was setting and the light on the hills
and meadows was very clear and beautiful. The
chill N.E. wind silenced the birds and I heard
nothing singing but two or three Red-wings and
Song Sparrows.
  A young man (Thos. Bergen) much interested in birds & a pupil              
of Mrs. Hoffmann's came to see me in the                                         
evening. He had been up the river to Fairhaven starting
very early in the morning. Shortly after day break
when it was still snowing hard he saw flying
about over the town, high in air, a flock of eight
Birds which from his description I judge to have been
Wilson's Snipes. As he crossed the causeway this
evening he heard several bird's making a "peculiar
tremendous sound" and apparently flying in circles
high overhead. I initiated the humming of the
Snipe and he at once said that that was
what he had just heard.
[margin]Wilson's Snipe[/margin]
  He also told me that he saw three Meadow Larks                     
together on Nashawtuck Hill this morning. It                       
is encouraging to know that so many still
exist in Concord.
[margin]Meadow Larks[/margin]