1892
Aug. 30
Concord, Massachusetts.
[margin]To Ball's Hill.[/margin]
Mass.
Concord.- Cloudy with threatening sky and light S. E. wind
but not a drop of rain.

  To Ball's Hill at 11 A.M. with C. in the little Robertson
canoe, the first time that it has ever carried two.
Took dinner in my cabin where we spent two hours or
more, taking a walk to the glacial hollow in the late
afternoon. The woods were silent and rather gloomy.
[margin]Woods silent &
gloomy[/margin]
  At 5 P.M. we started for home. The wind had now shifted
to S. W. and the sky for a space above the W. horizon clearing
the sun came out just before it set.

  Visited the Dove's nest at 4:15 P.M. ♀[female] parent sitting. I looked
at her through my glass for a minute or more standing in
plain sight on the opposite side of the hollow about 30 yds. off.
After perhaps three minutes she flew while we were both perfectly
still although we had been talking a little. She went directly off
through the trees without pausing or fluttering her flight being
swift & decided, the wings whistling as on ordinary occasions.
Both eggs had hatched since my last visit. The young were appar-
ently not over one day old and both were of the same size. Their
eyes were tight closed, thin bodies & heads covered with straw colored,
hairy down.
[margin]Dove's nest√√[tick marks][/margin]

  Six Black Ducks flying high over Davis's Hill, A Red-tailed
and Red-shouldered Hawk which started from trees on the 
river bank, a Hummingbird which crossed the river near
my boat house, a few Bobolinks & Red-wings feeding
on the wild rice, several White bellied and five Barn
Swallows with ten or a dozen Swifts flying over the rapids,
three King Birds (together) & one Yellow Warbler were the most
interesting birds observed along the river.
[margin]Black Ducks[/margin]
[margin]Swifts[/margin]