1892.
Aug. 3
[margin]To Fairhaven Bay[/margin]
Concord, Massachusetts.
Mass.
Concord.- Forenoon cloudy with occasional light showers and
sultry air. Afternoon clear with gentle S.E. breeze. A fine
sunset the west piled high with rose-tinted cumulous[sic: cumulus] clouds.

  To Fairhaven at 4 P.M., returning in the twilight. At
Conantum where I landed for a few minutes at 6 P.M.
not a single bird of any species was singing. Along the
river there were Song Sparrows and Yellow Warblers, the latter
giving the listless, midsummer warble only as did a single
Creeper which I heard on Martha's Point. A Towhee sang a
few times at sunset and now and then the quòn-kn-ee
of a Red-wing came from the recesses of the Button bush thickets
but altogether the singing was slighter than on any previous
evening which I have spent on the river this season. Even the
Whippoorwill which began at 7.35 on the hill west of Heath's
bridge [delete]uttered[/delete] gave only a few notes and then relapsed into silence.
[margin]Birds singing[/margin]
[margin]Whippoorwill√√[tick marks][/margin]
  I must not omit mention of one interesting and persistent
songster viz. a Henslow's Sparrow which was uttering his
simple tsl-ĕ or tòl-ip with great energy in the narrow strip
of meadow just below the bridge as I passed on my way home.
Feeble as this song apparently is when one is near the bird
it carries to a surprising distance. To-night with the wind
favoring I got it distinctly fully 400 yards away.
[margin]Henslow's
Sparrow[/margin]

  The frog-like trill which I have never identified but
which I have suspected might be made by the Mole cricket
came this evening from several places along the river, usually,
I thought, from beds of Pondenteriagrowing in shallow water.
[margin]Mole cricket[/margin]

  A Tree-toad the first I have heard for several weeks
was calling steadily after dark in some trees near
[margin]Least Tree Toad
calls[/margin]