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Concord, Mass.
1898.
October 20
  Cloudless and very warm despite a rather fresh north
wind.
  To Barrett farm in early morning & again in the
afternoon going both times by way of the river as
far as Davis's Hill & then walking through the
woods.
  Saw an adult Red-shouldered Hawk & a Marsh
Hawk. Started five Partridges, three all together, &
in the late afternoon heard two drumming over in 
the Barrett woods, the other in Davis's Swamp.
There was a small flock of Bluebirds in the
Barrett orchard.
  At evening a Carolina Rail called at intervals
for ten minutes or more in the woods opposite
the cabin. It gave the Kep only. I
was struck by the resemblance of this call to
the peep of Pickering's Hyla - the spring peep I
mean. The Rail's note was a little less mellow,
much less shrill and given more slowly.
  In the evening twilight as I was standing at
the cabin door I saw a Screech Owl glide
past and alight in a birch by the river where
it sat for a moment bobbing its head up and down.
Wood frogs croaking near the cabin at evening.
  Mr. & Mrs. Albert B. Carr (of Trinidad B.W.I) arrived
this evening by the 5.30 train. They are to stay with
me until the 25th.