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Concord, Mass.
1897
Oct. 25
  Clear and warm with light east wind.
  Spent the entire day in the woods on the back
side of Ball's Hill in company with Bensen, Pat
& Gilbert working at a wood path which I am
making. Saw remarkably few birds a Creeper, some
Chickadees & a few Crows being all that I noted.
At sunset heard Titlarks piping over the hill top.
Three or four shots were fired on the Snipes ground
this forenoon.
" [Oct.] 26
  Clear and warm with strong E. wind.
  This day also I spent supervising the work on
the wood path on Ball's Hill, but I also walked
to Davis's Hill in the forenoon. Despite the soft
delightful weather I saw but few birds. In
the early morning a Sharp-shinned Hawk skimmed
past the cabin and into the oaks above it.
  On the top of the hill I saw a Hairy Woodpecker
- an unusually alert & shy bird - and a Brown
Creeper. This about makes up the sum of the
day's observations.
  Sometime near the middle of last night I
was suddenly awakened by the pattering of feet
on the tin roof. The noise was much too loud
to have been made by a mouse. It was probably
a Flying Squirrel. It ran across the roof several
times in quick succession.