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Concord, Mass.
1898
April 2
  Early morning clear and cold, the ground
frozen hard on the surface. Clouds gathered early
in the forenoon and the afternoon was gray and 
chilly with N.E. wind and snow at nightfall.
  Three Fox Sparrows, sixteen Juncos, several Tree Sparrows
and five or six Song sparrows were at the seed bed
when I came out this morning. At daybreak
I heard one of the Fox Sparrows sing a few times.
  Spent the forenoon in the woods seeing nothing 
new. Birds sang very little and the woods &
thickets appeared silent and deserted.
  Gilbert saw four Black Ducks at about 8 A.M.
flying over the Great Meadows.
  Mr Benjamin Watson arrived by the 5.30 P.M
train to spend Sunday with me. When I went 
to the landing to meet him snow was falling 
fast already whitening the ground and clinging
to the bushes. The Sparrows and Juncos came 
to the seed for their evening meal presenting the 
usual animated & interesting scene as they
twittered and bickered over their food.