1892
Sept. 21
(No 2)
Concord, Massachusetts.
Mass.
Concord. under the tail until the bird checked its flight
and poised when they were dropped in readiness for
immediate use. When the bird saw anything it dropped
rather than stooped  falling lightly & rather slowly. When
on the ground it stood rather erect & often opened
and flattened its wings very like a big butterfly.
It frequently poised over one spot at a height of
six or eight feed for several seconds flapping its wings
quickly. This was also very Gull like.
  At about 2 p.m. we saw a Kingfisher cross
the meadow flying at a height of several hundred
feet & rising finally to fully 1000 feet go out
over the hills to the south. I am confident
that it was starting on migration. A bird
on its way to some inland pond would not
have risen so high.
[margin]Kingfisher[/margin]
  Saw two Rusty Blackbirds in the alders
opposite my boat house & a mixed flock of
Bluebirds, Sparrows etc near the [?] place.
  In this mixed flock was a Pine Warbler
which sang a number of times in the
top of an elm. I have heard what was
probably the same bird in the same
place several times during the past week
& a Pine Warbler a little than a
week ago sang for several successive mornings
in the elms in front of our house. All 
the elms are far away from any pines.
[margin]Pine Warblers in elms[/margin]