Concord, Mass.
1900
October 6
  Cloudy with chill E. wind which brought fine drizzling
rain after dark this evening.
Ball's Hill
  The only birds noted near the cabin today were two 
Kinglets, a Black-poll and a Bicknell's Thrush, the last
seen by Gilbert. In Holden's woods several Jays were screaming
in the afternoon. A gunner beating the marshes with a 
pointer dog fired four or five shots and I saw him flush
and kill one Snipe.
  At the farm where I spent the forenoon I heard a 
Cat bird and a Flicker and saw a number of Crows.
The road near the school house was swarming with birds
mostly Chippies with a flock of eight Bluebirds which were
eating the fruit of the smooth sumac and at least one 
Grass Finch. From a patch of woods behind Bensen's a 
flock of 12 or 15 Juncos rose as I drove past & I saw
others in other places, perhaps 30 in all.
Birds noted 
at the Farm
  At about six o'clock this morning as I was dressing
I heard a Golden Plover whistle seven or eight times. It
was evidently flying and apparently at a considerable height
and towards the East ward. I cannot recall noting this
species in Concord for more than thirty years. If I 
remember rightly D.C French shot one & perhaps saw a
few others at Hubbard the first year (1867) the 
family occupied this farm then.
Golden Plover 
heard at 
Ball's Hill
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