1892.
Oct. 2
(No 2)
Concord, Massachusetts.
Mass.
Concord - indicated clearly that it was an old
male. There were no feathers or other remains
anywhere outside of a circle two feet or less in
diameter & this convinced me that the bird
had been caught & killed on the spot where its
feathers lay. How could the Fox have surprised
so wary a creature? I could think of only two
possible ways; one the he crept up behind the
wall and sprang over it upon the bird perhaps
while it was asleep; the other (& this I consider
the more probable hypothesis) that he lay crouched
on top of the wall watching for something to
come along & that the Partridge rambled unwittingly
within reach perhaps making for its drumming
stone of the presence & nearing of which the
Fox may have been aware before he took
up his position there. There was no undergrowth
about the spot but the ground was covered
with a heap most of old bones.
[margin]Leopard Frog[/margin]
  In my record of yesterday I neglected to 
note that while walking along my river path
at Ball's Hill in the evening twilight I
heard a Leopard Frog "snoring" on the edge
of the water & a Snipe "scarping" in the
marsh across the river.