Concord, Mass.
1893
July 30
  Clear and warm with light W. wind.
[margin]Estabrook
Woods[/margin]
  With W. Deane I took a long tramp this morning in
the Estabrook woods. Starting at 9.15 we went through
Derby's lane, up Duttons['] lane to Bow Meadow, thence by
wood road to Bateman's Pond, next across country to
the Estabrook place, down the Estabrook road and through
the "Common Lot" woodpath to Pratt's spring and home
by way of the fields & meadows behind Merwyn's reaching
the Buttricks at 1 P.M. Although very warm in the sun
the wood paths and other shaded places were just
cool enough to make a slow, quiet walk wholly
delightful.
  Song Sparrows, Indigo Birds, Towhees, Tanagers, Red eyes,
and Black-throated Green Warblers were the only birds
singing at all freely & continuously but in addition we
heard one Warbling and one Yellow-throated Vireo, one Robin,
one Chippy, one Field Sparrow, one Creeper, two Wood Pewees [Peewees],
and a Black-billed Cuckoo. The last-named gave the full
cuc-cuc-cuc etc. song once at about noon. It is the only
Cuckoo that I have heard since July 1st.
  As a rule birds seemed very scarce in the woods to-day
but I saw several small flocks and one very large mixed
flock was met with near the old Estabrook place where
the trees and bushes along both sides of the road for
a distance of 100 yards or more seemed to be fairly alive
with Warblers, Thrushes, Finches etc. We had no time
to make a careful census of this flock but it must
have contained fully one hundred individuals and
I fully identified the following fifteen species: