Concord, Mass.
1893
July 4                                                          
  Clear and warm with strong W. wind                                                                         
[margin]Walk to 
Derbys' Lane.[/margin]
  Soon after breakfast I walked to Derby's lane and spent
an hour or more there lying on a bank near the big hemlock
smoking and watching the birds. A Red- eye, Oven Bird, &
Black & White Creeper were singing with some regularity in the trees
& a Maryland Yellow- throat and Song Sparrow by the brook.
  A Grosbeak also sang a dozen times or more in quick succession.
His voice had a bell-like quality which recalled that of the
Wood Thrush. Two Chickadees, apparently a pair of old birds,
were roaming about among the pines & I heard a Black-throated
Green Warbler chirping. The Phoebee was sitting quietly on
her nest in the sand bank, and not far off her mate
was silently busy catching flies. Occasionally a Flicker shouted
in the distance or a Robin Sang a few notes.
  As I strolled on through the path an old Crow accompanied
by four young flapped noisily out of a pine on the hillside
& flew over my head clamoring.
  On the way back across Derbys' filed I stirred up a                           
pair of Bobolinks who followed me quite  to the road
circling about me chirping anxiously. The female had a
worm in her bill. She uttered a double chirp exactly like
that of the [female] Orchard Oriole.
[margin]Bobolinks[/margin]
  In the afternoon a pair of Carolina Doves flew past
the Buttericks house going in the direction of the Derbys'.
One looked like a young bird.