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Concord, Mass.
1898.
October 4
  Forenoon clear with fresh W. wind, afternoon
nearly calm with gathering clouds; an excessively
warm and sultry day.
  Song sparrows and Meadow Larks in full song
near the house early this morning & a Flicker shouting
just after breakfast. Two Pine Warblers singing feebly
on Ball's Hill at noon. A partridge drumming at
short, regular intervals on the stone wall at
the E. end of the hill at 2 P.M.
[margin]Song Sparrows
& Meadow Lark
in full
song.[/margin]
  Spent the day at Ball's Hill, sailing down
in the morning. As I passed the Snipe ground
I saw a man and a dog boating it and 
heard five shots fired, no doubt at Snipe. 
[margin]Snipe[/margin]
  A Chipmunk has a hole in the thicket
between the two cabins. Gilbert had baited him
with corn and he took some from the ground
between my feet but would not trust himself
in my hand.
[margin]A camp
Chipmunk[/margin]
  The only birds about the cabin to-day were
a Cat bird, a Brown Creeper & four Chickadees.
  Passed the Blackbird roost at 4.30 P.M. About 300 birds
there & others arriving every minute. Cow-birds heard among
them.
[margin]Blackbirds
roost.[/margin]