Concord, Mass.
1902
Oct 11
  Forenoon sunny but hazy; afternoon cloudy; evening
rainy. Light S.W.wind. Killing frost last night.
  Shortly after breakfast I found a flock of twenty-five
or thirty small birds in the young pines behind Ball's Hill.
There were fully a dozen Chickadees, about as many
Yellow-rumps, a Black-poll Warbler, a Solitary Vireo, and
two Golden-crested Kinglets. The Vireo was singing rather
feebly and brokenly. It looked like an adult bird. There
was also a White-throated Sparrow in the alders near
those pines & I saw two Song Sparrows in front of the
cabin a little later. At sunrise I heard Rusty Grackles
and while we were at breakfast a Red-shouldered hawk
was screaming.
  On my way to the farm at 8.30 A.M. I startled 
a flock of ten Rusty Blackbirds from Benson's corn field.
In a windy place just beyond the corn field three Chippers, a
Junco and a Grass Finch rose all at once.
  At the farm there were upwards of a dozen Bluebirds,
a Phoebe,a number of Yellow-rumps and no less than
three Downy Woodpeckers. Robins in small flocks were
flying to & fro at intervals. A Quail whistled in the
woods below the corn field. Crows & jays were calling
in the distance.
  It was nearly dark & raining gently when I started
to walk back to the cabin. The woods seemed gloomy 
& full of mysteries. As I was passing through Prescott's
pines,descending the hill by the wood road, a Partridge
started from a pine making a hurtling sound as it flew off.
Partridge
  A moment later a deep cough, cough (or ow, ow) came
from the woods on my left. I think I have heard this sound 
before but I cannot be sure. Could it have been a cry
of the Long-eared Owl?
A strange night cry
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