1892.
July 19
Concord, Massachusetts.
[margin]Evening at Ball's Hill.[/margin]
Mass.
Concord.- Morning sunny but hazy; afternoon cloudy threatening
rain which did not come, the sky finally clearing before sunset.
Strong W. wind all day. Weather cool.
  Spent most of day in the house writing but late in
the afternoon started for Ball's Hill having a glorious
sail down in my decked canoe. On reaching my cabin
I left my things there and walked to Bensen's by way
of the river path returning past Davis's Hill and through
my swamp. At 6 P.M. I had tea in my cabin and
at 7.30 started for home, paddling most of the way.

  The high wind had its usual effect on the birds and I
saw but few and heard fewer still until near sunset
when the wind abated and many began singing.
I heard Robins, a Bluebird and a Field Sparrow near
Bensen's; a Black-throated Green Warbler in the pines above
the glacial hollow; and at 7 P.M., as I stood on the
shore in front of my cabin, Robins, a Veery, an Oven bird
(flight song), a Short-billed Marsh Wren, Maryland Yellow-throat,
Song and Swamp Sparrows, a Rose-breasted Grosbeak
(singing continuously and with great vigor & spirit) a Quail
and one Red-winged Blackbird. Most of them were on
the opposite (Bedford) side of the river.
[margin]Birds singing
at & after
sunset[/margin]
[margin]Rose-breasted
Grosbeak.[/margin]

  Visited the Dove's nest at 5.30 P.M. Female on. When started
she fluttered downward in a half circle as usual but
alighted on a branch a few feet above the ground and did not repeat
the wounded bird performance. After sitting quietly for a
moment she rose and flew off through the trees. Young
of apparently equal size & about as large as Bluebirds, their
shoulders and wings covered with sprouting feathers of
[margin]Dove's nest[/margin]