1892
Feb. 9
Concord, Massachusetts.
[margin]Clark's woods
& Bow Meadow.[/margin]
Mass.
Concord.- Early part of day cloudy with light flurries
of snow. Sky cleared at about 3 P.M. the remainder of
the afternoon sunny, absolutely without wind, and
delightfully soft and pleasant.
  To the Estabrook woods at 2 P.M., riding up
on the wood sled. Made directly for Cyrus Clark's
old-growth timber lot where I spent an hour or
more admiring the noble oaks, pines & chestnuts.
Gray Squirrel tracks led over the snow from trunk
to trunk in every part of the woods but I saw
none of the Squirrels.
  Next to Bow Meadow walking across and nearly
around it on the ice. A Fox had been there before
me and had nosed about, digging holes etc under
the Cassandra bushes. I looked closely for Loedum
but could find none.
  Turning back I wandered slowly homeward
through the densely growing young pines and cedars
south of the meadows. Presently I heard birds,
first a Chickadee, next a Purple Finch, finally a
Knight. There proved to be two of the first, four
of the second, and one of the last collected into
a little flock in a cluster of cedars on the berries
of which the Purple Finches (two red & two gray birds)
were feeding.
[margin]Carpodacus.[/margin]
  In the grove of large pitch & white pines behind
Mr. Dutton's I found more tracks of Gray Squirrels
and in Cyrus Clark's field north of the Damsdale
innumerable Fox tracks and holes in the snow
where these animals had dug for Mice.
At sunset the air seemed filled with golden haze.
[margin]Tracks of
Foxes & Squirrels[/margin]