Concord, Massachusetts
1895
October 6
 A superb day, cloudless, calm, very clear & free from haze, very warm.
  Soon after breakfast I walked to the Buttricks'.
In the big elms in front of their house a number of 
small birds were chirping and flitting about, feeding or
chasing one another in play. Among them I recognized a
Bluebird, a White-bellied nuthatch, a Downy Woodpecker and
Several Yellow rumped Warblers and Chipping Sparrows.
There was another flock at the Keyes’s consisting of
About a dozen Robins, two Cedar Birds, two or three
White-throated Sparrows and several Chipping & Song Sparrows.
[margin]Mixed flocks
of small birds[/margin]
  The Robins & Cedar Birds were feeding on the berries of the
Large mountain ash which stands on the east side of the house.
It was loaded with fruit for the birds have only just
begun on it having recently finished eating the fruit of the
still larger tree on the west side. This latter tree ripens its
fruit the earlier of the two, according to Miss Keyes who tells
me that the birds always begin on & strip it first. She
says that there have been upwards of thirty Cedar Birds
there the past week besides a great flock of Robins.
She thinks that most of the Cedar Birds departed on the
4th or 5th.
[margin]Robins &
Cedar Birds
Eating berries of
Mountain ash[/margin]
  In the afternoon I walked to Bateman’s Pond by way of
Dutton’s lane and Bow Meadow, taking six photographs with
my small camera. The autumn coloring was very rich &
vivid wherever there were red maples in abundance as
in some of the swamps & about the edges of the pond
but the oak woods were as green as in July & the
gray birch copses showed but little yellow. The country
[margin]To Batesman’s [sic]
Pond[/margin]