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Concord, Mass.
1898.
April 1
(No 2)
The latter soon made a swoop at one of them
and pursuer and pursued quickly disappeared among 
the trees. Half an hour later all our Sparrows and 
Juncos were back at the seed again so the Shrike
must have failed to secure his prey.
  I spent the forenoon working with Gilbert on 
a new path and in the afternoon took a 
long walk in the woods seeing nothing of
any interest except a [female] Cooper's Hawk flying
northward past Davis's Hill and I think 
migrating.
  The Phoebe was about the cabin all day and
I heard him singing a little before noon. A
Robin sang finely at evening. We have not 
either seen or heard a Red wing the past 
two days. I suppose they have all left the
river and congregated in the fields in larger
flocks as is their wisdom during cold, flushing
weather at this season.
  At noon a few wood frogs were croaking
in one of my ponds but the Hylas have been 
silent these last two days.