1893
April 22
(No 3)
Concord, Mass.
Hutchins's Woods.
  The large paper birch that stands by the wall east
of Oak Meadow measures 32 inches in circumference
at a foot above the ground. It is the largest
specimen I know in Concord. Unfortunately it has
been "barked" ruthlessly.
A short but very steady white pine lower down 
on Oak Meadow brook has a circumference of
10 ft 6 inches at about a foot above the ground.
[margin]Paper Birch
near 
Oak Meadow.
Large pine[/margin]
  In Hutchins's beautiful pine woods the ground
was frozen hard in many places and a drift
of snow extended quite across the path at one spot.
There were no birds in these pines but Hylas
and Wood Frogs were making a deafening racket
in the swamp at the foot of the slope.
[margin]Hutchins's
woods[/margin]
  Returning by way of Pratt's nursery I started
a Red-shouldered Hawk from the big chestnuts 
on the west side of Punkatasset Hill. As it went
off it screamed for several seconds. I looked for its
nest but could find nothing resembling one.
  There were more Yellow Palm Warblers & Yellow rumps
on the Pratt farm. Evidently there has been a 
considerable flight to-day. I saw them in 
various places; in pastures among birches, in apple
orchards, in oak & chestnut woods, and in a
white pine grove: nearly always the two species 
together but the Yellow Palm Warblers decidedly the
more numerous, certainly two to one. Both species
sang freely.
[margin]Yellow Palm 
Warblers[/margin]