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Concord, Mass.
1898.
May 30 (no 2)
the pair flew away as if they had decided
to desert the place.
  The Spelmans appeared a little before noon and 
dined with us. After dinner we all went down
river together as far as the pretty wooded knoll
below the "Two Brothers" boulders. Two camps have 
been built on this knoll since our last visit
but no trees have been cut. There are several
remarkably fine white pines one of which must
be nearly if not quite 100 ft. tall. The largest tupelo
measured about six feet in circumference at two
feet above the ground.
  On the way back I landed at the Swift farm
and dug a number of fine ladies' slippers
in full bloom. I sailed almost the entire distance
back.
  Heard a great many common birds. Bobolinks
were very numerous on Blood's Banks just below
Carlisle bridge. but I did not note them elsewhere.
A Dove was cooing in Lawrence's woods. Tanagers
and Wood Pewees were seldom long out of hearing.
Two Phoebees were in full song, one at Carlisle Bridge,
the other near a boat house lower down river.
I have not either heard or seen one near
Ball's Hill for a week or more.
  Where are the Green Herons? I have seen none
since their first arrival.