1892
March 18
Concord, Massachusetts.
Mass.
Concord. - Snowing hard all day (about ten inches of heavy,
damp snow falling) changing to rain just before dark.
Later in the afternoon I put on my snow-shoes and
walked across the fields to the Damsdale. It was raining
heavily and the country was dreary & forbidding.
Returning along the Estabrook road I saw two 
Meadow Larks. They came flying towards me & one
alighted in an apple tree nearly over me giving me
a good view of its yellow breast. These were literally the
only birds I saw except two Chickadees in the hemlocks.
[margin]Meadow Larks[/margin]
1892
March 20
  Morning & evening clear, the mid-day cloudy. Wind
blowing a full gale from daybreak late into the night.
Air of an icy, penetrating quality although the mercury
rose to 38[degrees] at noon.
 Faxon & Miller came up this morning and we
went to Ball's Hill, Michael driving us down on
the wood sled and coming for us again late in the
afternoon. We spent most of the time in my cabin
but took a short tramp through Bensen's pine  woods
where we saw two Chickadees & a Purple Finch.
The woods were dreary and depressing in the extreme
there being no nook so sheltered as to afford much
refuge from the raging, icy wind.
[margin]Ball's Hill[/margin]
 Along the road over Punkatasset & beyond we
saw three Juncos, five Tree Sparrows, and
five Robins. The Sparrows were feeding in the road
where alone is there any bare ground at present.
The Robins were eating asparagus berries in the
large bed near Petersen's. We also saw a Meadow Lark
Faxon tells us that Red-wings were seen in Cambridge
a week or more ago.
[margin]Robins[/margin]