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Concord, Mass.
1897.
Nov. 13
  Clear and cold with N.W. wind.
  Spelman and I spent the day in chopping, on the
Blakeman Knoll in the forenoon, in Prescott's pine woods
in the afternoon. Saw very few birds & nothing of
any particular interest.
" [November] 14 
  We spent the afternoon in the Holden woods.
In the afternoon started for a sail down river but
the wind was so violent and changeable that we
landed at Birch Island & took a long walk through
Lawrence's woods. Saw two Red-tailed Hawks, a
a pair, apparently, flying about over the meadows
& alighting on [delete]Hold[/delete] Davis's Hill. In the forenoon
an adult male Marsh Hawk passed over the
Great Meadows flying due south at a height of
at least 500 feet & apparently migrating.
" [November] 15
  Early morning cold the meadow & pond frozen.
Middle of day mild and cloudy.
  Spelman left us this morning having stayed
just a week. I first took two photographs &
afterwards walked in the woods in Davis's Hill.
A fine Rough-legged Hawk was hanging about
all day alighting in the oaks on the hill &
sailing over the meadows. It was a brown bird
with very white upper tail coverts. Saw but little
else save a Hairy Woodpecker. Heard the cry of a Shrike.