Concord, Mass.
Ball's Hill
1900
October 7
  Cloudy with fine, driving rain - snow more than
a "Scotch mist" but enough to make the trees drip & to keep
the grass & weeds well soaked.
  In forenoon walked to Davis's Hill, in afternoon to
the Blakeman & Holden's Hill woods. Saw a good many
small birds - Chickadees, Kinglets (satrapa), Creepers (2), Catbirds
(2), A Towhee, several Black-poll Warblers, Song Sparrows, a
Swamp Sparrow, number of Blue Jays & Nuthatches (carolinensis).
  A Partridge was drumming early in the afternoon behind
Ball's Hill and between 3 & 4 p.m. I started four others
all from the tops of tall deciduous trees in the woods. 
One flew from a poplar (grandidentata) and all three of the
others from clusters of two of which poplars formed a part.
This leads me to think that the birds may have been 
engaged in "budding". They all started from a height of
40 to 60 feet. None of the poplars have as yet shed their
leaves.
Partridges
"budding" (?)
poplars
  A Kingfisher spent the day along the Ball's Hill
shore. It was pleasant to have his familiar rattle sounding
through the mist-blurred air. He was very shy.
Kingfisher.
  Red Squirrels are numerous this autumn in my woods;
Chipmunks fairly so. I see about the usual number
of Gray Squirrels. The crop of acorns & chestnuts is
rather abundant but not excessively so.
Red and 
Gray Squirrels
  Tree Crickets chirp nightly about the cabin but
they are less prominent now than when we arrived
a week ago.
Tree Crickets
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