1892
Oct. 11
Concord, Massachusetts.
Mass.
Concord - Cambridge. Clear with light W. wind.
  I went to Cambridge this morning on the 8.10 train
On the way to the station I looked in the willows
on the causeway hoping to see the White-crowned
Sparrow which was there yesterday. In the very
tree where I left them yesterday I found one of
them, the adult bird. The young bird may have
been there also for I had too little time to search
the belt of willows carefully.
[margin]White-crowned Sparrow[/margin]
  My garden at Cambridge was alive with birds.
Indeed I have not seen so many there for years.
There were twenty-five or thirty White-throated Sparrows
feeding on elder berries, several Juncos with them,
half a dozen Goldfinches eating sunflower seeds, Robins,
House Sparrows, two Ruby-crowned Kinglets, a few
Chipping Sparrows and a White-bellied Nuthatch, the
last in an elm on Sparks Street - in all eight
species & probably fully fifty individuals. It seemed
like the good old days before the House Sparrows
were introduced but was probably due to a big bird wave.
  A large Skunk was found dead in one of 
my flower beds this evening. About its neck
was a string seven or eight feet long. Probably
some one had killed it in the neighborhood
and got rid of it by dragging it into our
garden.
[margin]Skunk in my garden at Cambridge[/margin]