Concord, Mass.
1901.
June 9
  Forenoon clear and cool with high N.W. wind. Afternoon
cloudy & nearly calm with a sprinkle of rain. The clouds 
lifted in the west at sunset & the evening was clear &
divinely peaceful.
  I came to Concord with Gilbert by the late afternoon
train yesterday. There was a strong cold N.W. wind
which blew late into the night silencing the birds
so completely that I heard almost none even at
sunset.
  The night was clear and almost cold enough for
a frost & the chill N.W. wind blew through the
forenoon but on the sunny side of Ball's Hill the
birds sang freely enough. There are the usual species
here this season but less than the usual number
of individuals. Thus we have only one pair of Cat birds
and Redstarts & not more than two pairs of Redstarts,
one of Chestnut sided Warblers, Oven birds & Grosbeaks.
There is a Wood Pewee, several Robins, A Brown Thrasher,
a Baltimore Oriole, a pair of Kingbirds & a
Chickadee or two.
  After supper I walked to Davis's Hill by way of
the direct path and back through Pine Park.
Birds were singing freely and I heard no less than
four different Oven birds sing on wing. A Partridge
was drumming on the wall at the east end of 
Ball's Hill and another in Davis's Swamp. The mate
of the latter hatched her eggs successfully about the
30th of last month.
  Two Bitterns were pumping to the westward of the
cabin at evening and one kept at it nearly all day
on the Bedford Shore near Hobb's Camp.
71