1893
April 7
(No 3)
Concord, Mass.
  A Sharp-shinned Hawk, a large female also appeared
near the house but did not alight merely scaling
across the fields to the grove of pines beyond the
North Bridge.
[margin]Sharp-shinned
Hawk[/margin]
  In the afternoon there was much shooting on
the meadows over which the snipe was drumming
last evening and I fear that some of the poor
birds fell victims. It is a shame that our laws
should allow this spring shooting of a bird which
is so rapidly decreasing.
[margin]Snipe[/margin]
  A large flock of Browned Grackles visited the
farm early in the forenoon coming and going
several times and descending to the corn] stubble
to feed as they used to do, years ago, on our
place in Cambridge. At first there were sixteen
birds in the flock but afterwards the number
increased to twenty-seven which probably represents
the total coloring that bird in the pines on the
Hoar place every season.
[margin]Browned
Grackles[/margin]
  A small yellowish bird which passed me in
the orchard flitting along in a jerky manner close
to the ground was almost unquestionably a
Yellow Palm Warbler but I did not identify
it positively