1892
June 8
(No 3)
Concord, Massachusetts.
Mass.
Concord  As I set sail again there is a crash in
the upper branches of the maples & a Night Heron flies off.
I can see that it is a plain brown, immature bird. It
circles around me and quaks once finally alighting in
Holden's woods.
[margin] Night Heron [/margin]

  Spent most of the day in my cabin. Early in the
afternoon heard a Hairy Woodpecker in the maples by
the river.  This bird visits me regularly nearly every day
I think it has a nest somewhere in Holden's woods.

[margin] Hairy Woodp'r [/margin]
The Canadian Warblers have certainly left me altogether.
There are at least two pairs of Wilson's Thrushes in my
swamp and more in Holden's woods.  Found a Grosbeak's 
nest in a small  oak in the hollow behind Ball's Hill.
[margin] Nest of
Rose br. Grosbeak [/margin]

6 P.M.  Sailing up the swift reach opposite Holden's hill.
Sky overcast with dark lead-coloured clouds on the horizon.
A light S.W. wind. Bittern pumping & Virginia Rail
calling cutta.  Yellow-throat, Yellow Warbler & Least Flycatcher
singing in maples by the river, Red-wings on the meadows,
a Veery in Holden's woods.  King birds uttering their metallic
tsee, tsee  in the black willows. Yesterday I saw one sitting
on her nest in one of these trees.  This nest was built on
the side away from the river & over the meadow a departure
from the rule induced, perhaps, by frequent molestation
from egg collectors in previous years.

[margin] King birds [/margin]
  Swifts & Bank Swallows flying over the meadows. I hear
a White belly also.  Barn swallows have been very scarce
of late.
Hunt's pond reach.  A pair of Yellow-billed Cuckoos followed
& mobbed by 4 male Red-wings.  The Cuckoos calling co-co-
co-co, cow, cow, sometimes merely co-co-co-co-co.

[margin] Yellow B. Cuckoos [/margin]