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Concord, Mass.
1898.
May 17
  Clear and warm through the day with violent wind
and a dash of rain at sunset followed by a cool evening
with brilliant northern lights.
  Went back to Concord (from Cambridge) by the 8.23 train this morning.
Spent the day working near the cabin. Common birds
numerous. Saw one Black-billed Cuckoo & one Water Thrush.
  W. Deane arrived by the 5.30 train. We took a short
walk after tea hearing a Carolina Rail and two Bitterns
and seeing 22 Greater Yellow-legs, 19 in one flock and
3 in another, flying over the Great Meadow. A Partridge
was drumming on the stone wall behind Ball's Hill.
Several Oven-birds sang in air over the woods.
We heard many Wilson's Thrushes calling but none sang.
The Swamps were alive with Maryland Yellow-throats
which were singing freely. A [male] Marsh Hawk was
seen flying along the Bedford shore.