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Concord, Mass.
1898
November 1
  A rare autumn day, warm and still with remarkably
clear, transparent atmosphere & a brilliant sunset.
  Spent the forenoon on Ball's Hill where I saw
a Hairy Woodpecker & a flock of Chickadees. One 
of the latter was unusually tame flitting about me
within three or four feet looking at me curiously.
  Early this morning I saw three Rusty Blackbirds
flying past the hill. All of them uttered the flight call
one the jingling medley so that I made
sure of their identity. This, I believe, is the first
time I have ever seen this species here after
the end of October.
  The Crows that arrived yesterday from the north
were here through the forenoon - at least two hundred
or more of them were - flying about in detachments
cawing noisily.
[margin]Crows.[/margin]
  The Golden-eye was also here again - in the river
just below Ball's Hill. The Joneses fired twice at
 it but I saw it afterwards apparently unhurt.
  I went down river in the afternoon, landing
first at Lawrence's woods where I dug some
plants for the wild garden at the cabin and
afterwards walking through the woods to the
Barrett farm. Saw two Brown Creepers & a
few chickadees. Heard a Nuthatch on Davis's Hill.
Heard Titlarks flying over the meadows at
sunset.