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Concord, Mass.
1898.
April 12
  Cloudy with occasional gleams of pale sunshine.
Wind strong from N.E.
  Spent the entire day on or near Ball's Hill
transplanting trees. Birds either very scarce or very
silent. The early migrants have evidently about 
all gone and none of the later ones around.
Our cabin Phoebe was about all day and sang
freely for the first time.
  Late in the afternoon a flock of five Goosanders 
passed high over Ball's Hill and then swooped
downward into Great Meadow their wings making
a loud rushing sound. Two of the flock were red
drakes.
  At evening two Snipes drummed for nearly
half-an-hour over the marshes opposite the
cabin and a Swamp Sparrow sang over in
full, round tones in the button bushes 
along the river.