1893
July 14
Concord, Mass.
  Clear and warm. Winds light & variable during
the morning, strong & steady from S.E. in P.M.
[margin]Pantry Brook[/margin]
  Chadbourne spent the night & started up river with
me this morning. But a sprained wrist troubled him
and as he preferred to drift about all day I left
him in the open canoe & pushed on above to Pantry
Brook sailing perhaps our third of the way. Birds
were singing freely but I heard nothing of much
interest save a Parula in the prairie opposite the Cliffs
and a Nashville Warbler in full song in some birches
near [?]. Quail are more numerous than I
have dared to hope for. I heard no less than four
different birds during the day, three of them beyond
Lee's Bridge. Chadbourne reported hearing them between the
town & Clamshell Hill so together we probably heard six.
[margin]Quail[/margin]
  After lunching at Warren's camp I concealed the
canoe among some seeds & spent two hours searching
Pantry Brook meadow for nests of Short-billed Marsh Wrens.
Heard only two birds singing & could find no nests.
A third Short-bill was singing just above Heath's Bridge,
a new locality. There were two Song Bills on the river
banks just below Pantry brook.
[margin]Marsh Wrens[/margin]  
  Bobolinks are flocking but the old males still wear
their nuptial livery & now & then one sings. On the
12th I heard them in full song.
  Started back at 4 P.M. and sailed most of the
way to Clamshell Hill. It was delightful skimming
silently between the meadow or wooded banks mile
after mile. Reached shore at 6.30 P.M.
  Saw only one Hawk all day, a [female] Circus flying over the Cliffs.