1892.
Aug. 2
[margin]Afternoon in Estabrook woods.[/margin]
Concord, Massachusetts.
Mass.
Concord.- Weather like that of yesterday but the wind less
strong, at times nearly wanting.

  Starting at 3 P.M. I walked up the Estabrook road
to Dutton's where I took the old lane to Bow Meadow and
bearing around this to the left followed the path to Bateman's
Pond as far as the big spruce swamp which I entered at
its upper end. The foliage was so dense that the spruces were
not visable[sic: visible] until I was almost among them. There was much
dog-wood in this swamp and the ground in most places was
covered with a deep carpet of sphagnum. I found a mountain holly
with its crimson(?) berries fully developed & very attractive looking.
A pair of Canadian Warblers, the male very ragged looking & evidently
moulting, were feeding chirping young in a thicket on the edge of the
swamp and a Yellow-billed Cuckoo was floundering about in a very
noisy and awkward manner in the foliage of a young maple. I
saw no other birds here and did not hear a song of any kind.
[margin]Spruce swamp
near Bateman's
Pond[/margin]
[margin]Canadian Warblers[/margin]
  Returning to the Bateman's Pond path I kept to it for a little
further and then took a wood road which enters it on the right
and which I had never explored. It led around the base of a
recently-cleared ridge with a heavily timbered (pine) swamp on
the right and finally came out into the sprout lands where the
old lime pits are. Crossing this I took the Eastabrook road and
followed it as far as Ash Swamp where I turned back and
walked slowly home.

  During this tramp (of at least five miles) I heard singing only
a Robin, Black-throated Green Warbler (listles, feeble, somewhat warbling
song), three Red-eyed Vireos, four Tanagers (steadily and vigorously),
a Chippy, a Grass Finch (only once), two Song Sparrows, a Meadow Lark,
two Black-billed Cuckoos and a Wood Pewee (the short pee-c note).
[margin]Birds singing[/margin]