Concord, Mass.
1901.
March 25
  Early morning and late afternoon cloudy; remainder
of the day clear and rather warm with tender blue sky. A 
moderate E. wind blowing all day.
  To Concord by 8.34 A.M. train. Spent entire forenoon
on W. Bedford side of river tramping about with Arnold
in the fields and woods discerning the value of his land &
looking up its boundaries. The whole country was simply
swarming with birds. Rarely in the course of a single morning
have I seen as many Robins, Bluebirds, Song sparrows and 
Red-wings. The Bluebirds were especially numerous and 
I had them almost constantly in sight or hearing. The
Song sparrows were flitting through every thicket. All the
birds sang through the whole forenoon. I was treated to
repeated bursts of Fox Sparrow music from five birds in
the thickets near the boat house. Two Tree sparrows and 
a Junco were with them & also sang freely.
  Five Gooseanders, four of them old drakes in full plumage,
were swimming well out from shore in a cove of Great
Meadow. I first saw them from Arnold's house when they
looked as white as Gulls on the dark water. They were
swimming rapidly to & fro and occasionally running on
the surface of the water with flapping wings, chasing one
another in play. When we showed ourselves at the edge
of the meadow half-an-hour later they took flight &
went off down the river past Ball's Hill.
  I dined at the cabin and spent most of the 
afternoon walking about in the woods & fields.
There were comparatively few birds on this, the Ball's Hill
side of the river but I started a number of Song Sparrows
and the call notes of Bluebirds flying overhead or the
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