1892.
May 3
Concord, Massachusetts.
Mass.
Concord.- Cloudy with occasional light drizzling rain.
Cool with strong E. to S. E. wind.
  To Fairhaven, starting at 9.30 in my Rob Roy
and sailing frantically the entire distance.
It was a great bird day; the country was [?][?][?][?]ly
swarming with migrants and there was much song at
all hours.
  As I left the house a Bobolink flew overhead singing
joyously. A Yellow Warbler & Cat Bird were singing by
the [?]. Near the Cattle-fair building I saw a King bird.
Brown Thrashers & Towhees numerous on Fairhaven Hill
& in full song.
  The woods & fields about Martha's Point were alive
with migratory birds chiefly Yellow rumped & Yellow
Palm Warblers. The latter were actually more numerous
than they have been at any time previously. Heard
a Parula & saw a fine Rose-breasted Grosbeak. A
Partridge drumming. Field Sparrows numerous.
  Got some common Hornbeams & took lunch on the
point.
  Then sailed back to Nine Acre bridge & went in to
the Loedum swamp where I pulled up a few plants
of Loedum and Kalmia glauca and a great many
young spruces.
  As I was returning to the river a Cooper's Hawk, a
fine blue-backed male, came from the wooded hill on
the right and on set wings scaled very swiftly and in
a straight line out into the pasture and struck at a
Grass Finch sitting on a knoll. [delete]but [?][/delete] missed its aim;
the Sparrow rising nearly straight in the air to
the height of 100 feet or so made off closely
[margin]Cooper's Hawk[/margin]