Concord, Mass.
1902.
Nov. 4
  Brilliantly clear & deliciously warm at noonday with
almost no wind.
  The country is now almost completely drained of its
summer resident birds and early and mid-autumn
migrants. The last Bluebirds, Robins and Rusty Blackbirds
departed nearly a week ago and the Titlarks have nearly
all gone. I saw a stray Chippy on the 2nd and
heard a Yellow-rump to-day. Chickadees, Kinglets,
Creepers, Crows, Jays, Goldfinches, and Partridges with
an occasional Downy or Hairy woodpecker or Flicker are
now about the only birds I am likely to find in
the woods during a morning's tramp. I saw the 
first Tree Sparrows to-day. The Juncos have nearly
all gone. 
  No one has seen any Quail on the farm of late but 
at daybreak this morning one whistled loudly a number
of times very near the house. Every morning the
Crows congregate to the number of fifty or more
in a cornfield on the Holden farm where the stoocks
are still standing & when the air is still they make
a prodigious clamor. Our corn has been harvested
but the Jays still come to the field to search for
stray kernels which the Pigeons & Squirrels have
overlooked. The Gray Squirrels followed the corn into
our open shed and boldly seized & made off
with the ears while the men were at work
"husking". The Red Squirrels have not molested the 
corn at all.
  Two Tree Crickets (Acanthus nivaeus) were chirping steadily,
if somewhat slowly, near the house last evening.
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