Concord, Mass.
(The Farm)
1900.
April 26
  Brilliantly clear with violent N.W. wind. Ther.
37 degrees, 69 degrees, 46 degrees.
  Spent the day at the farm. When I reached there
at 8 A.M. a Purple Finch, Black & White Creeper, Yellow rump
and Ruby-crowned Kinglet were singing in the old orchard.
I heard another Creeper in the grove of red pines in the
forenoon. At about noon a male Sharp-shinned Hawk
skimmed past the house. In the afternoon I visited 
Pulpit Rock where I heard a second Ruby-crown
chattering & saw two Hermit Thrushes and Birch Field
over which an Osprey soared majestically for several
minutes. Purdie and Gilbert saw the Hermits together
near the Rock & a Junco at Bensen's. Later in 
the afternoon Gilbert started two Bitterns from Barrett's
meadow and a third from the Bedford Shore opposite
the cabin. It is strange they are not pumping.
The only one I have heard thus far was on the
21st. The skeleton and wing-feathers of a Bittern that
must have been killed this spring are lying among
the alders not far from the cabin.
Birds noted
 Sharp shin Hawk 
Osprey
Bitterns
  A Sapsucker spent the day at the farm in the
grove of large trees behind the barn. It was a fine
adult male and the first bird of the species that I
have ever seen in Concord in spring. He was very
sluggish spending nearly half-an-hour clinging to the
sheltered side of a hickory & moving only his head.
Purdie & I both think that we saw the same 
bird yesterday.
Sapsucker
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