1893
May 25
Cambridge to Concord, Mass.
  Clear and warm with strong S. W. wind.
[margin]Morning at
Upper Reservoir,
E. Lexington[/margin]
  Leaving Cambridge at 7 A.M. I drove to E. Lexington
where I put up the horse at the hotel and spent the
forenoon on the knoll at the head of the Upper Reservoir
lying on the grass under an apple tree watching and
listening to the Greebes, Least Bitterns etc. It was a 
pleasant occupation with Orioles flitting in the blossoming
orchards, Grass Finches singing in a neighboring pasture,
and innumerable Red-winged Blackbirds conqueree-ing and
flying from place to place among the button bushes & flags.
I heard a number of Greebes & saw three birds. At least
two Least Bitterns cooed at long intervals in the cat tail
islands. Two big Bitterns rose near the inlet and flew
about over the marsh doubling & twisting, one following the
other closely. Only one Rail, a Carolina, whinneying. Neither
sight nor sound of the Gallinules which Faxon fears have
been shot.
  Starting again at 1 P.M. I drove to Concord over the old
Lexington road now practically abandoned & in sadly rough
& neglected condition. The wind silenced the birds and I
heard very few singing. Reached Concord at 3 P.M.
  After tea I paddled up the Assabet in the open canoe.
Wind died to a gentle breeze at sunset. Veeries singing in
the birch swamp, A Thrasher in the top of a maple over the
river, a Grosbeak in some willows, a Grass Finch and Yellow-
winged Sparrow in the fields, and a Wood Pewee in the Hemlock.
Three Muskrats; one on a steep bank several rods from the
water came rushing down the bank in a panic on seeing
the canoe. Pickerel (?) Frogs & Toads after dark. A Night Hawk peeping