1893
Aug. 8  
Concord, Mass.

   Cloudless with light N. to N.E. wind dying at sunset.
A very warm day, positively sultry & oppressive.

   Ball' s Hill with C. at 9 A.M. spending the day.                              
In the afternoon I walked to Dan's Hill and along the
swamp ridge. Later I rowed C. to Dan's Hill, [?th] t[then?] came
up the river a little before sunset after the light wind 
had died wholly away. The air was very clear and 
the reflections in the water unusually fine.
The singing has been less in amount and variety                             
to day than on any previous clear day this summer.                        
A Chickadee (in full song at 9 A.M.), Yellow-Throated Iris,
Warbling Vireo, from Yellow Warblers(midsummer with only
of Cats) two or three Song Sparrows, one Swamp Sparrow,
a Field Sparrow, a Flicker, an Indigo Bird, and a 
Red-wing make the list, ten species and fifteen individuals
only.
[margin]  Ball's Hill.[/margin]
[margin]Birds heard
singing[/margin]

   First Tree Cricket this evening. Four Mole Crickets along           
th eriver, both in the afternoon, were also the first                             
I had heard but then I have not been down river
in the late afternoon for a week or more.
[margin]First Tree 
& Mole Crickets.[/margin]


   Stepping out of doors at about 9 P.M. I at over                               
heard Warblers lisping and chirping in various distinctions         
overhead. The sky seemed to be alive with them and                        
the sound of their voices was nearly incessant up to
11 P.M. when I went to bed. This is the first
really heavy nocturnal flying that has passed over
Concord this summer. I do not remember to have ever
heard more birds within the same length of time.
[margin]First heavy
 nocturnal [/margin]