1892
July 7
(No 14)
Concord, Massachusetts.
Concord. - walking hurriedly but stealthily back and forth
I at length see something which looks very like a Toad hopping
along in the middle of the road at my feet. It proves to
be a young Thrasher scarce half grown and unable to fly.
As I pick it up it yips now loudly and the parent bird
appears and flutters about in great distress calling tau, tau
and uttering a scolding tcha-a-a. I do not hear the pheu
which my birds with young at Ball's Hill gave so often.

  As I pass Clark's two Whippoorwills are singing, one in
the fields to the W[est], the other in an orchard very near me.
The latter ceases and immediately afterwards I hear a
low quip repeated a number of times and answered by
another bird in the back part of the orchard. Is this
a call of the Whippoorwill? I do not remember ever
hearing it before.
[margin]Whippoorwills[/margin]