Concord, Mass.
1893
July 5
(No 2)
  The only birds singing near the cabin were a Red-eye, a
Cat-bird, and a Song Sparrow. Two Red Squirrels, apparently a
pair, appeared about noon in one of the oaks directly in
front of my door and chased one another up and down and
around & around the trunk spending upwards of an hour
in this one tree. I afterwards saw two others on Benson's knoll.
  After putting the cabin in order I walked to Davis Swamp
and spent half an hour or more lying under one of the
pines near the north end of the ridge. Two Red-eyes, a Veery,
a Maryland Yellow-throat, a Canadian Warbler, a Chestnut-sided
Warbler and an Oven Bird sang more or less steadily and
frequently within hearing and there was a silent Cat-bird
flitting about in the bushes. Occasionally the breeze
brought fragments of the song of a Robin from the orchard
near Bensen's. Now and then a Chipmunk rustled the leaves
or chucked. The sky was dark with threatening clouds & a
few rain drops fell at intervals. The mosquitos were numerous
and blood thirsty.
[margin]Birds singing
in Davis Swamp[/margin]
  Growing along this ridge I found a dozen or more large
mountain hollies (Nemopanthus) and in the swamp very
near the ridge in an opening a number of fine poison
dogwoods reared their broad, glossy heads above the dense
tangle of Clethra. Both holly & dogwood have wholly escaped
my search in this region heretofore.
[margin]Discover the
poison dogwood
& Nemopanthus[/margin]
  On the way back to the cabin I saw a Solitary Vireo
in the pines above the glacial hollow, a Cooper's Hawk
hotly pursued by an irate King bird over the crest of
Ball's Hill, and a female Hairy Woodpecker, apparently
anxious about young in the oaks near Bensen's Landing.