1892
Aug. 29
Concord, Massachusetts.
[margin]To Ball's Hill.[/margin]
Mass.
Concord.- Most of the day cloudy but the sunset clear
and the evening sky brilliant with stars.

  Circumstances left me at home all day but I
was out of doors much of the time and saw a
few birds near the house and others during a drive
which I took with C., between 5 & 7 P.M.

  A Water Thrush in one pine hedge near the elms
chirping sharply when disturbed by a stray cat. This
hedge is perfectly dry beneath. but very near it is a
large corn field where Seiurus may feed.
[margin]Water Thrush
under white pines.[/margin]

  At about noon an Oriole flew over the house low
down singing on wing the notes becoming rapidly
fainter as the distance increased, but apparently
not ceasing until after the bird had got quite beyond
hearing. His voice was at once rich, tender, sonorous. I
am satisfied that this late summer singing of the
Baltimore is in every way superior to his best efforts
in May & June. The song is much more prolonged. There
was nothing peculiar about the flight while the bird
was singing.
[margin]Second song
period of
the Oriole[/margin]

  As we were approaching the house this evening some
time after sunset (at 7 P.M. it was) a Woodcock shot
past within twenty feet flying directly towards the
river & very swiftly. It probably came from Mr. Keyes's
corn field & was doubtless intending to spend the night
feeding in Mill Brook meadow.
[margin]Woodcock[/margin]
  Scattered Chimney Swifts about meadows & over woods at
sunset. flying high but in no particular direction.
[margin]Chimney Swift[/margin]