Concord, Mass.
1900.
August 28
  Forenoon cloudy & calm; afternoon clear with light E. wind.
Cooler than yesterday but sultry.
  Spent the entire day overseeing the work on 
new cabin. A Black & White Creeper & a Wood Pewee
were the only birds heard singing. There was a Water Thrush
near the cabin and a Kingfisher rattling over the river.
Gilbert found the feathers of a Partridge that had
indirectly been killed by Fox in the woods behind 
Ball's Hill.
Chestnut
Cabin building
Kingfisher
  During my last visit to the cabin (August 16-17)
Green Frogs were still croaking. I hear no Bartrachians
now. At evening & through the entire night we
have a grand chorus of Tree Crickets almost as full
as that at Cambridge at this season.
Frogs
Tree Crickets
  August 29.
  Forenoon cloudy & sultry with a short but brisk shower.
Afternoon sunny & warm.
  Visited the farm in the forenoon and set out
a number of plants at Pulpit Rock. Heard a few
Warblers chirping in the woods but failed to identify
any of them. In Bensen's pasture just below the
barn a Pine Warbler was singing listlessly (for some
mysterious reason this apple tree although far from the
woods is resorted to by Pine Warblers at all seasons while
they are here). There were also numbers of Bluebirds
& Chippies in this pasture.
  Returned to Cambridge by electric cars in P.M. As I
was crossing a field near the W. Bedford Station I flushed a
solitary Quail from a bed of tall weeds.
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