1892
Feb. 6
Concord Massachusetts.
[margin]Ball's Hill[/margin]
Mass.
Concord.- A wonderfully clear, sparkling winter day
the sky of a tender blue and absolutely cloudless,
a brisk N. W. wind dying at sunset. After
sunset a strong afterglow at first pale rose
deepening to rich crimson and finally to dark
purple.
  To Ball's Hill at 9.30 a.m. spending the
day. Three Juncos in the road near Benson's.
and a few Crows cawing and flying across
the white fields.
[margin]Juncos.
Crows.[/margin]
  From Benson's I started into the old oak woods
north of the birch swamp which I encircled coming
out on the river near Davis's Hill. Saw two
Chickadees, two Knights & a Creeper together in
those woods. Also two Jays. The last suddenly
began screaming when a Cooper's Hawk darted
out of some pines near me. I had a good view
of him and saw that he was an old bird
in fine plumage and certainly a male.
[margin]Chickadees
Knights &
Creeper.
Jays
Cooper's Hawk[/margin]
Found four men fishing on the river. They had
sixty lines set but had caught only one
fish, a perch.
[margin]Fishermen[/margin]
  From here I walked through Davis's superb
pine grove. Gray Squirrels had connected
many of the trees by loops of tracks over the snow in
which they had dug many holes for nuts, etc.
[margin]Davis' Hill[/margin]
[margin]Gray Squirrels[/margin]
  Reached the Ball's Hill landing about noon &
spent the rest of the day there. Faxon &
Miller visited me late in P.M. having walked
down from Concord. Miller identified "mouse tracks'
as made by White-footed Mice and Shrews. He
[margin]Mouse Tracks[/margin]





