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Concord, Mass.
1897.
Nov. 11
Concord, Mass.
  Early morning clear with heavy white frost. Clouds soon
gathered & late in the afternoon it began to rain. the
night was wild & stormy with violent N.E. wind & floods
of rain.
  Photographing along the river with Spelman in the early
morning going as far up as Dakin's Hill. Saw a Hairy
Woodpecker, a brown Marsh Hawk, a migrating flock of
28 Crows and a few Tree Sparrows.
  Dr. Gehring came out by the noon train & spent
the afternoon.
" [Nov.] 12
  Cloudy with W. wind the sky clearing in the west
just before sunset. The rain turned to snow at about
daybreak & snow continued falling up to about 10 a.m.
whitening the ground for the first time this autumn.
I was ill last night and to-day got out for only
a short walk in the afternoon. Spelman saw a flock
of six Robins along the river path near the cabin and
two Pied-billed Grebes opposite the lower end of
Ball's Hill. During my walk I started two Partridges
and saw a Grebe near the upper end of Davis's Hill.
Chickadees & Tree Sparrows about near the cabin
at intervals through the day.
  Chipmunks continue exceedingly scarcer; indeed I
have seen but two here this autumn. Red Squirrels
are rather more numerous than usual and Gray
Squirrels fairly abundant. Both Red & Gray Squirrels
visit the cabin frequently.