1893
Aug 11
Concord, Mass.

Another clear, hot day with more air than                                                                 
yesterday but yet [?] & oppressive.
[margin]Balls' Hill[/margin]

With the first gleams of day break this morning                                                            
a King bird began twitting and soon afterwards
made a song flight. A few minutes later an Oriole
fluted repeatedly its song a dozen times or more.
I heard no other birds until I awoke again at
7 a.m. when a Warbling & Yellow - throat Vireo and
one or two Song Sparrows were singing.
[margin]Birds singing
in the early
morning.[/margin]

I spent the day at Balls' Hill taking the                                                                          
two little spaniels. while on my way down I
saw a two Summer Yellow - legs which, startled  by the
clatter of a hay wagon, rose from Langs' Meadow
and, after circling a few times, re-alighted in nearly
the same place.
[margin]Yellow Legs[/margin]

The two Short - billed Marsh Wrens sang all day                                                          
long at intervals, in the meadow opposite the cabin.
We had moved the position siren yesterday to a 
larger area of grass which mowers have not yet
reached.
[margin] Short - billed Marsh Wrens[/margin]

Yesterday I saw a flock of Crows, which I estimated                                                       
to contain about thirty birds, at Balls' Hill.  They
were there again to day & I counted them accurately; there
were thirty -  eight. They were feeding on the recently cut
meadows most of the time. When flying they kept
well bunched. They acted on the whole like migrants
from the north.
[margin]Crows[/margin]