Concord, Mass.
Ball's Hill.
1900
October 21
  Clear and warm with strong S.W. winds.
  For the past two days I have been very busily engaged
superintending some work at or near the cabin & have had 
little opportunity to see much of the woods. This morning,
however, I drove to the farm with Roland Haywood and
walked back through the woods. The weather was delightful
but we saw almost no birds excepting a flock of Juncos, two
Kinglets, a Downy Woodpecker, & a few Crows and Jays.
As we were driving through the wooded road beyond Bensen's
we passed a Partridge which was standing erect & still
on the top stones of an old wall. We flushed three others
at the south end of Davis's Hill & one of them ran slowly
ahead of us for several yards before rising.
Small birds
Partridges
October 22
  Cloudless, calm, very warm for the season (ther 72 degrees at noon)
  Two Hermit Thrushes spent yesterday & to-day in the
thickets at the E. end of Ball's Hill. They hopped along our paths
like Robins and I saw them eating smilax berries. They were very 
tame. During both days they were silent but last evening and
this I heard them clucking continuously & excitedly for five minutes
or more, just as I used to at Jaffrey last July after they
had finished the evening singing.
Hermit
Thrushes
  Early this afternoon two Pied-billed Greebes  swam slowly
down past the cabin keeping close to the opposite shore. One
looked a third larger than the others. Raymond Emerson
shot one of these Greebes near Red Bridge last month and shot
at but missed another off Birch Island yesterday morning.
He also saw five Wood Ducks in the Assabet near the hemlocks
a few days ago.
Pied-billed
Greebes.
Wood Ducks
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