Concord, Mass.
1901.
Sept 15
  Cloudy with occasional light showers. Sultry with
S.W. wind.
  Spent the entire day in the woods walking to the
farm in the afternoon.
  The most abundant birds were Black-polls & Blue Jays.
I saw at least twenty of the former & a dozen or 
more of the latter. At day break the Jays came close
about my cabin making a great variety of sounds. A
number of Crows were also cawing vociferously not far off and
a Chipmunk was chucking. Last night the rhythmic beat of
the Tree Crickets was incessant through the hours of darkness.
Before sunset I heard Mole Crickets along the edge of the
river. The latter are not numerous - about one to every one
hundred yards of shore line when the conditions are
favorable being the rule. Pickerings Hylas were also calling
yesterday afternoon & I heard one Wood Frog. Not a
single bird of any kind sang within my hearing either
yesterday or to-day.
  As I was skirting the base of Doris's Hill this afternoon 
I started what I feel nearly sure was a Connecticut Warbler
but unfortunately I did not succeed in identifying it fully.
It flew up with a maple when I got my glass on it
for an instant just before it took a longer flight over
the meadows to some distant tree where I could not
find it again.
Conneticut (?)
Warbler
  There was a Phoebe at the farm flitting about
in the overhead within fifty yards of the barn I
wonder if it was one of the vireos that nested there
last summer.
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