1892
July 11
Concord, Massachusetts.
Evening walk to "Sunset Pasture".
Mass.
Concord.  Clear, nearly dead calm all day & very hot. Tem. 90º at
noon. Evening sultry & oppressive.
  Spent the day  about the house writing. Visited the
Flicker's nest at 3 P.M. and found it empty. The young
birds  were calling on both sides of the vine. One, the last to
leave I suppose, was perched on a large limb near the
top of the elm over the nest. He probably climbed there
[margin] Flicker's nest [/margin]
  After tea walked to Clark's and spent nearly an hour
sitting on the boulder in Sunset Pasture. The western sky
was cloudless and coppery red [delete]after[/delete] when the sun set.
Birds sang listlessly and intermittently this morning but
I heard nearly all the species which frequent this locality
- Robins, Grass Finches, Song, Field and Chipping Sparrows, a
Yellow-winged Sparrow (medley song), a Grosbeak (in full song)
a Maryland Yellow-throat, Chestnut-sided Warbler, Oven birds,
an Indigo Bird, King Birds (flight song), a Black-billed Cuckoo,
and a Quail. Blue Jays were screaming at intervals.
[margin] Birds singing
at evening [/margin]
  Robins were singing on my arrival but they soon ceased
and I heard none after sunset. On the other hand Quail
were silent until at least 15 minutes after sunset when
two began & whistled for some time - the bob-white note.
[margin] Quail singing
late [/margin]
  At 7.45 a Song Sparrow, Field Sparrow, Chippy, Grass Finch
and Quail were singing and a King Bird twittering. At
7.50 a Wood Thrush came into the orchard near Clarks and sang for about a minute.
At 7.53 the first Whippoorwill sang.
The last Song Sparrow sang at 7.57½, the last Field Sparrow
at 7.59 [delete]while the[/delete] while a Grass Finch closed the concert
of diurnal birds at 7.59½.
  Tree toads singing everywhere after dark. Heard the
first shirring grasshopper this evening.
[margin] Tree Toads,
Grasshopper [/margin]