Concord, Massachusetts
1895
Oct. 7
(no 2)
the maples furnished as a rule the more brilliant colors &
some of them glowed like canopies of living flame.
  I walked about in the woods for an hour or two seeing
a Hermit Thrush, four Black-poll Warblers and a number 
of Jays. A little before sunset three large flocks of Rusty
Blackbirds came flying overhead in quick succession from
the west. The first two flocks which contained respectively
37 and 40 birds passed on down river but the last whose
numbers I failed to count pitched down into Benson's
corn field where they fed for some times every now & then
rising & whirling bout in a dense, sable cloud or alighting
in the oaks to jingle & chink their wild musical chorus.
[margin]Birds at
Ball's Hill[/margin]
  Chipmunk Squirrels were so very scarce during the past
spring & summer that it was a noteworthy event to see or hear
oneanywhere. I did not meet with more than three or four
in all including every experience at Warren, W.H. where they were
so numerous in June 1894. The farmers thought that they perished in
the holes during the long severe winter. In the region about
Ball's Hill I could find but one solitary individual during April &
May. Accordingly I was greatly surprised to hear & see them
everywhere during my walk to Bateman's Pond yesterday &
in the Ball's Hill country this afternoon. Judging by these
two experiences I should say that they are now more
than ordinarily numerous.
[margin]Chipmunks
very scarce
last spring
but abundant
this autumn[/margin]
  Two Gray Squirrels & A Red Squirrel were barking in
the woods behind Ball's Hill to-day.
[margin]Gray & Red
Squirrels[/margin]