Concord, Mass.
1901.
April 8
  Weather precisely like that of yesterday - cloudy
with light easterly winds and fine rain in the afternoon.
  A Fox Sparrow was singing gloriously near the cabin
at day break this morning and two birds appeared
a little later in the thickets at the E. end of the Hill.
I saw them again at sunset in Pine Park where
they both sang at short intervals for fifteen or
twenty minutes before going to roost for the night.
During most of the forenoon a Flicker was shouting
on the crest of Ball's Hill and I heard Jays
screaming among the pines near its base. Pat saw
a Herring Gull and two Ducks which he thought
were Whistlers.
  I spent most of the afternoon in Larch Opening
transplanting trees. A Partridge was drumming steadily
in the usual place on the old wall although
only its topmost stones were above water. As I
was on my way back to the cabin in the canoe
I passed within four rods of him. He stood rather
erect watching me and after I had got past him
walked slowly above the top of the wall jerking his
tail and ruffs.
  At about 4 P.M. we heard the distinct honking
of Geese. They were a long time in coming into
view but at length we saw them heading directly
towards us crossing over the western end of Ball's Hill.
They were flying at about the usual elevation but
when they were directly above us I would distinctly 
hear their wings which made a winnowing sound too
shrill to be call "rustling", yet not clear enough to 
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