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Concord, Mass.
1897.
Nov. 19
 Cloudy with no wind. Fine snow began falling at
about 11 A.M. continuing through the day but it came
so very slowly and sifted down so through the leaves
and grass that the ground was scarce whitened by
dark save a smooth bare surface such as foot
paths and the ice on the frozen meadow. Now, at
8 P.M. it is snowing much faster with every indication
of a heavy fall before morning.
  Davis's Hill was the scene of action again during
the forenoon but in the afternoon I went to
Prescott's pine woods. The entire day was spent
in burning the huge piles of bush that we have
made during the past week the matter being
singularly favorable for this purpose.
 As I was leaving the cabin in the early morning
I started a brown Rough-legged Hawk from the large
red oak at the eastern end of Ball's Hill. This bird
was no doubt the same individual that I noted
two days ago.
 Some water fowl were cutting a long silvery furrow
on the surface of the calm river just off Birch Island
at about 9 A.M. As nearly as I could make out
there were three Black Ducks & a smaller bird which
I think must have been a Grebe but I [?] not
spare the time to go around through the woods for
a nearer view. Three Black Ducks came from down
river an hour later & flew close past Davis's Hill.
No doubt they were the same birds.