1892
April 26
Concord, Massachusetts.
Mass.
Concord. - Weather very like that yesterday but a
little warmer. Sky equally cloudless & evening equally 
still & delightful.
 To Ash Swamp again for a day's campaign
against the Spice bush  & yellow birches taking Pat
Flannery as well as George & driving up at 9.30.
Pat and I dug while George transported our plunder
to the Buttericks'. As Pat was driving his spade
into the sod around a spice bush a large green
snake emerged from its hole directly under the
spade. Heard a Cedar Bird lisping and 
presently saw him near us in a wild apple tree,
a single bird, apparently, & the first I have [?]
here. A Ruby-crowned Kinglet also appeared among
the wild apple trees near us and sang a few
times.
[margin]Tree digging[/margin]
At 4.30 P.M. Pat and I started for Hutchin's
beautiful pine grove where we dug some dwarf
cornel and a few large black birches. Hylas
singing in all the swamps but few birds. Heard
a Winter Wren chirping in an alder tree where
a few "cowslips" are in bloom.
 As we emerged into Pratt's pasture I saw a Fox
standing on the crest of a knoll within fifty yards
of the spot where I saw one last week. It slipped
over the knoll almost instantly but the next
moment another & much larger one started from
a belt of bushes still nearer us and bounded
off following the same direction as the first.
Only a few seconds elapsed between the disappearance
of the first & the appearance of the second. Both
looked faded & bleached.
[margin]Two Foxes
in Pratt's nursery[/margin]