1892
March 16
(no 2)
Concord, Massachussets.
Mass.
Concord. - back to my boat later in the afternoon
I was thinking about this bird and hoping
that I might see it when just I was emerging
from Holden's woods I looked across the river
and then it was directly opposite me standing
on the edge of the ice on the further side of the
river about 100 yards off. The body was nearly
horizontal, the long neck stretched up. After
looking at the bird with my glass for several
minutes I showed myself outside the woods
when it took to the water and paddled off
down stream going away swiftly with the
current but not seeming to be much alarmed.
It was soon out of sight around the bend but
probably did not fly. A farmer reported seeing
a flock of Geese flying N. on the 10th.
[margin]A Goose
in the river[/margin]
  On the way up river I saw a Shrike sitting                            
on the top of a willow near the bathing
place. It was doubtless the same bird which
I observed yesterday a little lower down.
[margin]Shrike[/margin]
  Between 10 and 11 a.m. the ice on the meadows
and along the river kept up an incessant
booming which ceased before noon and which
I did not once hear in the afternoon. It
was less loud and resonant than usual and
more rattling, reminding me forcibly of the
rattling sound of human bowells.
  I do not think that either Song Sparrows or
Bluebirds have increased in numbers during
the past six days.
  Saw a Gray Squirrel this afternoon, a Red yesterday, both 
in Holden's woods.
[margin]Squirrels[/margin]