Concord, Mass.
1901.
March 27
(No 2)
strolled around behind the hill. The wind had fallen
and Red-wings and Song Sparrows were singing far &
near along the edges of the flooded meadows. Just
beyond the swamp I came suddenly on a pair of
Partridges in the wood road. The female flew at once
but the cock, a fine large bird, stood erect and motionless
for a moment, with his tail and ruffs conspicuously
displayed, in the very middle of the wide, smooth
path not twenty yards from me. Returning the 
same way about twenty minutes later I flushed
the hen again at the very same spot. I fancy
there must have been some especially attractive kind
of food there. Gilbert started three Partridges this
afternoon in Prescott's pines, making seven our
record for the day.
A pair of
Partridges
  At sunset a good many Robins came to the
pines in the Larch Opening to roost. There must have
been at least thirty assembled there when I left.
They were very nervous and restless - constantly taking 
alarm and dashing off through the trees to return
a moment later. Several birds sang well but not
in the roost.
Robin roost
  I saw no Ducks to-day but Gilbert reports
that a flock of ten Black Ducks passed Ball's Hill
early this morning. Mrs. Emerson writes me that she saw Wild Geese
a flock of 65 Geese flying north on the 23rd &
that another flock was heard by Mrs Lou Williams
that same night at about eleven o'clock.
  It is strange that there are no Flickers here yet.
Walter Deane reports them very numerous in Cambridge
& Belmont last Sunday (24th.)
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