Concord, Mass.
1902.
Oct. 5
  Cloudy and mild with light S.W. wind and
heavy rain all the afternoon.
  Just before daybreak I was awakened by the 
haink of a Great Blue Heron repeated several times
and startlingly loud. The bird was evidently flying
very low down and directly over the cabin.
Great Blue Heron
  Fifteen or twenty minutes later Quail began
calling. Some of them seemed to be close to the cabin,
others are the opposite side of the river.
Quail at Ball's Hill.
  I went to the farm in the forenoon. Saw
two Juncos & heard the distant calls of Bluebirds
but there seemed to be but little animal life stirring.
  In the afternoon I spent several hours in the
Blakemore woods. It was raining heavily most of
the time. The only wild creatures that I saw or
heard were a cock Partridge & a Gray Squirrel.
The latter was galloping over the ground carrying
a chestnut bur in his mouth and trailing his 
bedraggled tail over the wet leaves.
Lack of visible life in woods during heavy rain storm.
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