1892     
April 21 
Concord, Massachusetts.
Mass.
Concord .. Forenoon clear, calm & very warm.
Shortly after noon clouds drove in before a
brisk wind from the S.W. and rain, the first 
for nearly a month, began falling at 4.30
continuing through the night.
  To Ball's Hill in my Rob Roy at 9.30 a.m.
paddling down. At the Beaver Dam reach
I started a pair of Red shouldered hawks
from the meadow on the left where they
were sitting close together on the ground
probably eating frogs. They flew to the edge
of the woods and alighted on the [?]
tree one (the [female]) above the other. The [male] was
an immature bird.
[margin]Red shouldered
Hawks.[/margin]
  Pine Warblers (2), a Perver, Robins, Song Sparrows
& Robins the only birds singing on my land
to-day. Mr. [?] (a Norweigan) found three young
Painted Tortoises which were evidently only just
hatched in Bensen's sandy corn field 300 yds
from any water.
  When I started for home at 5 P.M. it was
raining steadily and the wind had nearly 
all died away. It was typical Robin weather
and I think every male Robin in the country
was singing at his best. A bird on Holden's hill
is a particularly fine singer. He imitates
the call notes of the Quail perfectly.  
[margin]Robins[/margin]
  Saw a single [female] Red wing, the first, in the
button bushes on the river. Also a Yellow [?] 
at the Buttricks.
[margin]First [female] Red-wing[/margin]
  Set out Arabus, [?]ica, Connus florida etc. from
Temples Nursery.