Concord, Mass.
1901.
March 19
  Forenoon cloudy with raw N. E. wind; afternoon sunny
and mild with light N. wind.
  When I stepped out of the cabin door at 6 A.M.
Crows were coming in the distance and a Red-wing
singing near at hand. Walking along the river path as
far as Birch Gate I saw one Song Sparrow and
four Blue Jays. Two Chickadees came to the suet
while we were at breakfast and just before dinner
a Phoebee appeared in the oaks directly in front
of the new cabin on the hillside. Pat saw a
Herring Gull flying past the Hill at about 7 A.M.
At 9 A.M. I went to the Farm following the
road up through the fields and cutting across through
the oak woods to the old lane. Heard the distant
warbling of Bluebirds twice and the lisping flight
calls of Robins several times. Where the road
passes through the hollow just beyond Bensen's
I started three Fox Sparrows from a thicket
of bushes and a little beyond in the Barrett
woods I came upon what I took to be the
same birds a second time in company with
a small clock of Juncos.
  At the farm I heard Blue birds & Robins in 
the distance and saw a Red Squirrel in 
the grove just behind the house.
  In the Woodcock Run found a great pile of
feathers from a slaty blue Pigeon directly in the
path. Some chalky excrement lying among them
showed that the bird had been killed by
a Hawk.
  No Frogs or Hylas yet.
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