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Concord, Mass.
1897.
Oct. 31
  Still another perfect day with light S.W. wind. Thin
ice on the shallowest pools early this morning but the
middle of the day deliciously warm.
  George Farnsworth arrived last night to spend to-day
with me. We spent the forenoon sailing on the river.
Saw a Marsh Hawk & a Red-shouldered Hawk. The
latter is actually the first Buteo that I have noted
here this month! What a change from fifteen or twenty
years ago when both borealis & lineatus could be seen
daily almost anywhere about these river meadows.
What has become of them all? They have been
steadily diminishing in numbers for the past ten
years.
  Both last evening & this I heard Snipe scaiping
over the meadows as I was walking along the
river path.
Nov. 1
  Cloudy with light S.W. wind changing first to S.E.
and finally to N.E. in the afternoon. Rain began
falling at 4 P.M. and by dark it was raining
very heavily with every sign of a long continued
storm.