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Concord, Mass.
1897
Nov.  21
(No 4)
the brush -  which was dense and overrun with
green briar in places  - nearly the entire length of
the island  - a distance of upwards of 100 yards.
Nor was this all for the back trail led out into
the open meadow an uncertain distance to where
the water was several inches deep & beyond.
We could see the longer tracks in snowy places
and beyond where we could go without wetting
out [sic] [our] feet a broad furrow through the [?]
grass as if a large dog had passed. Evidently
the bird had first alighted on the meadow
& then walked to and across the wooded 
island. Strange behavior, this, for a Bald Eagle!
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  In the afternoon I went to Holden's Hill where
I saw two Gray Squirrels, a Partridge, a Downy, 
two Kinglets, two Brown Creepers and seven
Chickadees. As I emerged into Brown's field
a little after sunset two Black Ducks came
over me from the direction of Davis's Hill
one of them quacking loudly & incessantly.
It was very warm this afternoon. I saw
small moths flying about in the woods
& started a Frog on the edge of a ditch.
The snow wasted rapidly, of course, and
by nightfall it was almost wholly gone.