1893. 
Nov. 3.                                    
Concord, Mass.
  Very mild the sky overcast most of the day with a dash of
rain in the forenoon. The sun just before setting peeped out
beneath the curtain of clouds that hung low in the west.
  Drove to Ball's Hill at 9 A.M. and spent most of the day
there. There was a flock of fully 30 Robins in Bensen's field
and upwards of 200 Crows passed overhead in the early afternoon
flying southward. A brown Marsh Hawk was beating about over the
meadows in the forenoon.
  At 3 P.M. drove to Fairyland where Harry Tuttle started
four Partridges yesterday. He was very confident that I should
find them in the same place to-day and to my surprise he proved
to be right. At least I found a bird in each place, one under a 
wild apple tree in a fence corner, the other on the edge of a 
swamp. The first gave me an open shot but I had to fire very
quickly and missed. The second rose among dense brush and I
missed with the first barrel but an instant later it (the bird)
rose above the trees and my second barrel killed it at long range
After this I walked around the pond starting another Partridge
among some pines and seeing a Black-poll Warbler in birches. It 
was dark when I reached the house.