Concord, Mass.
1901.
July 12
  Forenoon cloudy and misty; afternoon and evening
brilliantly clear and deliciously cool. Wind E. all day.
  Spent most of the day writing but at 4 P.M.
walked to Holden's Hill returning at 6.30. After supper
started out again going to Davis's Hill and back
along the ridge through the big swamp. Birds sang
fully all the afternoon especially Tanagers of which
I heard no less than four different males, two on 
Ball's Hill, scarce fifty yards apart, apparently striving
to outdo one another but always singing alternately,
one on Holden's Hill and one on the ridge in Davis's swamp.
Just as the sun was setting a Grosbeak sang
twice on Ball's Hill. In the fields somewhere in
the direction of the large oak in Holden's lane I
heard an Indigo Bird, the first that I have noted
in Concord this year!
  When I got back to the cabin after my first walk I
found that Gilbert had just seen three of the young Screech
Owls. (I have entered a short account of his experience
as a parathetical addition to what I wrote in this
journal under date of June 10th.)
  On my way back from Davis's Hill this evening
as I was crossing the long opening between
Pine Hill and the meadows a Woodcock passed
directly over my head flying very swiftly in the
direction of the eastern end of Ball's Hill. Twilight
was falling at the time. Pat told me night
before last that he thought he started a Woodcock
after dark on the edge of the boat canal across the
river and Gilbert is nearly sure that he flushed one
near his cabin on the afternoon of the 8th.
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