Errol to Colebrook, N.H.
1903.
June 15
(No 5)
  I left Errol Dam at 1 P.M. in an open buggy
drawn by two large horses driven by Mr. Harrington,
Mr. Allen's son-in-law, and reached Colebrook about 6 P.M.
It rained much of the time and the roads were
exceedingly soft & muddy. I was particularly impressed
by the great number of Savanna Sparrows in the grass
fields and pastures between Errol & the Notch. They seemed
to be everywhere, on high dry hillsides as well as in the
moist intervale meadows along the course of the river.
They were singing freely but also carrying food in their
bills for their young. Bobolinks and Bluebirds were
also rather numerous in these grassy fields.
Bobolinks
  Barn Swallows were skimming about everywhere.
I saw them entering dilapidated barns and, in
two different places, deserted homes through broken
windows.
Barn Swallows
  As we were passing through the large opening a
few miles to the westward of the Balsams a flock
of 12 Red Crossbills flew from the top of a spruce
growing near the roadside.
Red Crossbills
  Near the highest part of the Notch I heard a
Philadelphia Vireo singing in some stunted paper
birches which clung to the almost vertical rocky
mountain side just above the road. The song was
identical in every way with that of the bird on the
nest near Lakeside (see Journal for June 14th)
Philadelphia Vireo
  Also near the highest part of the Notch I heard
the flat, listless che-lat of a Yellow-bellied Flycatcher.
  (Ralph Hoffman passing over this same road about a
week later found two colonies of Horned Larks in Errol & flushed
one bird from a nest which held two young & an unhatched egg)