Concord, Mass.
Ball's Hill.
1900.
July 24
  Cloudy at daybreak with light rain falling. The sky
cleared some after sunrise and the day was fine but rather
warm with moderate S. to S.W. winds.
  At 6 A.M. I took a short walk going as far as
Pine Park & returning over the crest of Ball's Hill. 
At evening I walked to Davis's Hill coming back by way
of the meadow when on a sandy flat I found deer
tracks which were not over a week old and which
apparently were made by the same animal that
was here about a month ago. Found a quantity of
cotton grass in Holden's meadow.
Early Morning 
walk
Deer tracks
in Holden's 
meadow.
  Song Sparrows, Swamp Sparrows and Red wings sang freely
& vigorously in the early morning & again at evening, and
two Quail whistled bob-white most of the day. 
Red-eyed Vireos, a Solitary Vireo (the first I have met with
in Concord this year) & a Rose-breasted Grosbeak sang listlessly for
a little while in the early forenoon near the cabin. A Wood Pewee was singing
well on Ball's Hill at 6 A.M. and another very feebly on 
Davis's Hill at evening. I heard a Black & White Creeper,
a Pine Warbler, & a Maryland Yellow-throat each sing once.
Robins, Vireos and most of the Warblers seem to have ceased 
singing altogether.
Birds heard
singing.
Adult male
Grosbeak singing
listlessly (a
very late date)
  I saw an Oven bird this forenoon rambling about on
the ground on the hillside near the cabin closely followed
by a young bird which she fed at frequent intervals
& which appeared to be only a few days from the nest.
It was interesting to see how exactly it imitated its parent
in all its motions. It kept up a shrill chirping
not unlike that of a young Song Sparrow.
Oven bird
feeds young
on ground
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