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Concord, Mass.
1897
April 22
  Clear and much warmer with strong S.W. wind.
  Spent the day planting trees near the cabin where
I heard or saw three Chickadees, a Phoebee, three Yellow
Palm Warblers, one or two Yellow-rumps, a Black & White
Creeper, and the usual number of Robins, Redwings, Flickers
etc.
  Early in the forenoon as I was standing on the 
top of Ball's Hill I saw a Goshawk doubtless a
[female] for it looked as large as the biggest Red-tail.
It scaled over the pine covered knoll beyond the
swamp and on reaching Bensen's field began soaring
so very like a Buteo that had it not been for
its excessively long tail, short wings wings and blue back
I could not have believed it to be an Accipiter.
When scaling it looked exactly like a big Cooper's Hawk.
White it was still in sigh an immature Red-tail
crossed the river near Davis's Hill.
  A little after sunset I walked to Bensen's
field where I heard a Snipe drum several
times apparently over the meadow just north
of Holden's Hill.
  The Hylas were peeping by hundreds this evening
but there were no other Batrachian voices except
those of a few Leopard Frogs. I heard Toads
trilling in Cambridge on the 19th.
  Will Bartlett called in the afternoon. He 
saw a Spotted Sandpiper just as he landed.