1892.
April 24
(no 2)
Concord, Massachusetts.
Mass.
Concord. - toward the dog. He ran swiftly taking
long, light bounds. I saw him distinctly for a
moment as he crossed an opening. We lay down
on the ground & waited for the hound but he
kept [?] about in the swamp beyond the 
road & did not appear.
  From here we kept south through the woods
for a little way & then turned east. Saw a
Red-tailed Hawk in an oak swamp & found an
immense white pine, the largest I have seen in
this region. Crossed to Hutchin's beautiful pine
woods and found a large extent of dwarf [?]
growing under the pines with a profusion of
winter green, princess' pine, partridge berry etc. The
ground for hundreds of yards was densely carpeted
with these evergreens. A Solitary vireo singing here
& another near the lime kiln. The woods silent
in most places.
[margin]Large pine[/margin]
  Met Bolles near Mr. Ruby's house, He had been
following our tracks but had missed and 
passed us. After dinner he rowed us up the 
Assabet. Woods & river beautiful but nearly silent.
Returned & ascended Ripley's Hill. The woods to
the eastward beautiful in the late afternoon light
with the blossoms of the maples suffusing all the
tree tops with a warm rosy pink [delete]light[/delete]coloring.
Saw a male Marsh Hawk rising & falling in
sharp pitches like this: [diagram] now rising above
the trees next disappearing among (or perhaps beyond)
them, keeping a straight course & probably following
a female. He was nearly a mile off. Also saw a Cooper's
Hawk glancing across a valley.
[margin]Marsh Hawk
performing
aerial acrobatics[/margin]