1892
Feb. 10
Concord, Massachusetts.
[margin]Ash Swamp &
Estabrook
woods.[/margin]
Mass.
Concord.- Cloudless, a brisk, cold N. W. wind in the early
forenoon, remainder of day perfectly calm. Thm. 14[degrees] at 7 a.m.
  Spent the forenoon in the Estabrook woods with
Fred. Pratt riding up to the Estabrook place on the
Buttricks' wood sled and returning in the same manner.
Pratt took me to a swampy piece of woods on the
north side of Ash Swamp where yellow birches are
growing in large numbers.with elms and a few
buttonwoods. Many of the birches are eight or ten inches
in diameter and some of them have very wide-
spreading tops. The color of the bark varies exceedingly
in trees of the same size. With some it is very
pale yellow, in others deep reddish. In our portion
of the swamp the growth is almost wholly of
young elms twelve to twenty feet tall. Visited the
large clump of Kalmia latifolia; its leaves were
curled and withered by the cold.
[margin]Yellow Birches.[/margin]
[margin]Mountain
laurel[/margin]
  Nearly every square rod of snow in the swamp was
tracked by Rabbits and Fox tracks were scarcely
less numerous. I also found the trail of either a
Mink or a large Weasel.
  In Hubbard pastures we started two Partridges and
a bevy of eight Quail The latter rose from a
piece of bare ground under a cedar.
[margin]Partidges &
Quail.[/margin]
  Saw two pairs of Chickadees, a Downy Woodpecker,
and a Flicker, the last in Cyrus Clark's orchard
where I noted one, probably the same bird, last
December. In some alders by the roadside near
Derby's lane were eight Tree Sparrows & two Jays.
[margin]Downy W.-
Colaptes.[/margin]
[margin]Tree Sparrows
& Jays[/margin]
  In several places in oak & chestnut woods I
found Gray Squirrel tracks. Also saw one Red Squirrel.