1892.
Nov. 7
Concord, Massachusetts.
Mass. 
Concord.  Cloudy and warm with rain in the
evening, the wind S[outh] W[est].
  Mr Cunningham who has lately bought the 
Giles farm on the Virginia road called to see me
this morning in the hope that I might be tempted
to buy a wood lot which forms a part of his
new possession. I drove down with him to see it
Mr. Buttrick accompanying us. It proved a very
fine piece of woods of upwards of 100 years growth,
the trees all seedlings but none of them of
remarkable size save a white pine which girthed
10 feet 4 inches and two pitch pines each exactly
8 feet in girth. There were a dozen or more birches
the largest measuring 4 feet 2 inches and a yellow birch
of about the same size besides a good many hemlocks.
The oaks were chiefly Q, alba. There were a
few chestnuts of fine proportions. all the trees
in these woods are unusually vigorous. They
cannot represent the original growth nor are
any of them sprouts. Probably the land was
once cleared and cultivated & then reverted to woods.
  From here I drove down to Caliph's and spent
the afternoon ranging about in the woods
near Goose Pond. Heard a few Jays & saw a
Gos Hawk which passed near me gliding through
the tree tops with amazing swiftness on set wings.
  Great numbers of Juncos & Fen Sparrows with
a few Fox Sparrows in roadside thickets near
weed patches. One Flicker among elms on the
Virginia road, probably a winter bird.
[margin]Old woods on Giles farm[/margin]
[margin]Gos Hawk[/margin]