1893
June 22
Andover, Conn
Cloudy with heavy showers in the forenoon. Cooler but
yet sultry, a gloomy day.

Despite the rain F'axon & I were out all the forenoon,
taking a long walk, down the railroad to a bridge, up
along the course of a small brook to an old ruined mill
where we sought shelter from one of the heaviest showers &
where some young Phoebes were flitting about, we past a
small mill pond where we saw a Green Heron & a brood
of young Crow Blackbirds, up a steep road bordered by
fields in which a Grass Finch, a Meadow Lark, a Quail
and Song Sparrows were singing and by some thickets in
which we heard a White-eyed Vireo, and finally to the 
crest of a high ridge overlooking the narrow valley in
which the town of Andover is situated and about on a
level with most of the other hill tops & ridges which
we could see by looking off through the misty atmosphere.
We next took a narrow, deeply-rutted lane which finally
entered extensive woods. Here we heard & saw a Hairy
Woodpecker, new to our Conn. list. In some swampy
thickets near these woods two Chats were singing & among
some growing birches a Nashville Warbler.
  On the way back we heard a [?] Water Thrush sing
several times near the old mill.
  House Wrens appear to be numerous in the village
and in apple orchards about the outlying farm
houses. We heard at least four males singing
this morning. Other common village birds are the
Robin, Purple Finch, Chipping, Chimney Swift, [?] Owls,
Yellow-throated Vireo, Least Flycatchers, Phoebes & Goldfinch.
The only Warbling Vireo was near a farm house. English
Sparrows very scarce in Andover.
[margin]Village birds[/margin]
