1892
Sept. 24
(No 3)
Concord, Massachusetts. 
Mass.
Concord. Along the river path within the space of a few rods 
I saw a Tanager (male junior), 2 Cat Birds, a Thrasher, a Robin, a            
Swamp Sparrow, a Solitary Vireo, a Brown Creeper, 6 Black-polls,
5 Chickadees and a Phoebe. I shot the Tanager. Later, while
I was cooking my dinner, the Phoebe came & looked in at
the door as he (for I believe it was the same bird) used to
do daily last spring. One of the Cat-birds also approached
the house and sang a few notes in a whisper.
[margin]Ball's Hill[/margin]
[margin]Mixed flock near my cabin[/margin]
[margin]Tanager[/margin]
[margin]Cat-bird sings sotto voce[/margin]
  After dinner I made the usual rounds of my place starting
a Grouse behind Ball's Hill and a Carolina Dove from the ground
under a pine on Benson's Knoll. I also found another mixed
flock consisting of 5 Chickadees, 4 Pine Warblers and 1 D. varius.
Jays were numerous & noisy everywhere and there were many
Crows flying W[est] in straggling flocks but not, i think, migrating.
[margin]Mixed flock in pitch pines[/margin]
  On returning to the cabin I discovered two Carolina Grebes
swimming on the opposite side of the river close in to
the lily pads. They did not seem to notice me, even when
I walked along my shore in plain sight. One looked nearly
twice as large as the other. Both young birds. They
kept close together & floated buoyantly like Ducks.
[margin]Carolina Grebes[/margin]
  At 4 p.m. I paddled up river to the Holt when I again
landed & beat the meadow in the hope that the Snipe
might have returned but I started only a few Titlarks
& Savanna Sparrows. Seven Black Ducks, flying very
high in a V like geese, came over the meadow & circled
to reconnoiter then went off to the S. I also saw 5
Rusty Blackbirds descend from a great height & pitch 
into some button bushes & two flocks of Cowbirds, about 50 birds
in each, come to their roost opposite Ball's Head. One flock
[margin]Black Ducks[/margin]
[margin]Rusty Blackbirds[/margin]
[margin]Cow-buntings[/margin]