1892
Oct. 22
(No 2)
Concord, Massachusetts.
Mass.
Concord.- usual manner but rather slowly, whistling.
Neither Melvin nor I have ever seen a Woodcock
behave in this way before. It seemed to have no
fear whatever of either me or the dog. The locality
was the crest of a knoll with birches & alders &
little moss-grown opening [sic: openings?] at intervals. The mound
on which the bird stood was not two feet from
a thicket of alders.
  We finished the day by visiting a very pretty piece
of birch cover near the Haunted House. We found a
Woodcock soon after we left the road but he got
off unscathed although four barrels were fired at him.
  Saw three Fox Sparrows & a Shrike as I was driving
out in the morning. Juncos were numerous everywhere
along the roads in flocks of thirty or forty with
a few Chipping, Field, Song & White-throated Sparrows
intermingling.
  An immense flock of Crows passed over the Parker Lot
at 8.30 A.M. flying S.W. in a long, straggling
flock and just above the tree tops. I counted 210
and missed a great many that passed behind some
of the trees.
[margin]Immense flock
of Crows.[/margin]
  The hill north of Braybrook's is wooded largely
if not chiefly with beeches mostly vigorous young
trees, apparently seedlings, [delete]t[/delete] 20 to 30 ft. tall and
growing very thickly in places. The largest tree I
saw was about a foot in diameter & forty feet
high.