1892.
Sept. 28
Concord, Massachusetts.
Mass.
Concord.- Clear & warmer. A strong, soft wind in the morning
falling to a gentle breeze by noon & dying away wholly at sunset.
[margin]Night at Ball's Hill.[/margin]
  I slept soundly through the night and awoke at
day break to hear a great clamor of crow voices across
the river; [delete]and[/delete] a little later a Phoebee sang freely & in firm
clear tones near the cabin and a Pine Warbler trilled a few
times on the hill. Both were evidently old birds. A
White-throated Sparrow also sang once, in low doubtful tones.
[margin]Phoebe singing[/margin]
[margin]Pine W. "[/margin]
[margin]Wh. thr. Spar. "[/margin]
  After breakfast we all walked to Holden's Hill where we
spent nearly two hours sitting in the shade of the trees
looking off over the meadow. I started four Grouse on
a wooded knoll and saw a good many Black-polls &
two Pine Warbler, all in oaks.
[margin]Ruffed Grouse[/margin]
  After dinner as I was strolling along the path to the
E. of my cabin I flushed a bevy of 14 Quail from the
old wall directly under my large red oak. Nine appeared
to be fully grown & flew swiftly; the other five were not
much larger than House Sparrows & after fluttering feebly
for about thirty yards dropped to the ground among
some pines. The scattered birds began calling within five minutes.
The very young ones made a thin, feeble piping which I do
not remember hearing before.
[margin]Quail[/margin]
  On our way up river at sunset we saw a flock of fully
70 Cow-birds fluttering about a bed of reeds & wild rice near
Hunts, an Osprey flying high towards the W., & a Sharp-shinned
Hawk crossing the meadows. An Indigo Bird in Hunt's cornfield
sang once in full, sweet tones adding & extra flourish to the usual strain.
[margin]Cow birds[/margin]
[margin]Osprey[/margin]
[margin]Indigo Bird sings[/margin]