1892
Oct. 30
(No 2)
Concord, Massachusetts.
Mass.
Concord.  Spruce. All the oaks, chestnuts & birches
are seedlings - indeed I could not find any
sprouts of any kind. There are many dead
trees both standing & fallen. None of the pines
are so large as the largest at Holden or on
Davis's Hill but they are evidently quite as old
& their numbers are much greater. These woods
cover probably fifteen acres. I noticed: two old
nesting holes of the Hairy Woodpecker, both
in canoe birches.
  During one walk we saw two or three Fox Sparrows,
three Hermit Thrushes, a few Juncos, Crows &
Jays, two Brown Creepers & one Partridge.
  After dinner I launched my Stella Maris canoe
and sailed down river to Ball's Hill where I
landed and afterwards walked to Holden's Hill
by way of Blackman's Knoll which I explored
carefully finding many paper birches on its
northern slope. Started two Hawks in Holden's woods
where I think they had gone to roost for it
was sunset at the time. One [delete]I did not[/delete]
[delete]identify; the other[/delete] was a Red-tail. It flew
from a tall pine & made  as much fuss as
if it had a nest there uttering the Jay-like
scream many times & circling about taking
short flight. The other bird looked like a
Red-shoulder but I did not identify it fully.
It flew out over the river and was shot at but
missed by two men in a canoe.
  Saw Timber Muskrats on my way homeward.