Concord, Mass.
1902.
March 21
(No 2)
for two weeks or more and that the dogs have been
chasing it a good deal.
  A Mongolian Pheasant is also frequenting this
neighborhood again this year (there was one here
last spring). It was seen by Bensen last Monday
(17th) in Mr. Howe's pasture very near the school house
and by Hansen a few days before this. It is
a male bird they say.
A Pheasant at the farm
  Two Bluebirds were singing close to the farm
house when we reached it. Robins were calling
and Song Sparrows singing at sunset. Soon afterwards 
a Pickering's Hyla peeped a few times in the 
meadow across the road. It is the first I have
noted this season but Dr. heard one in
West Roxbury on March 1st of this year, an
extraordinarily early date. A single Wood Frog was 
croaking here on the evening of the 15th.
  Gilbert saw an Antiopa Butterfly at the farm
this morning and he and I found another flitting
about in the road near Bensen's this afternoon.
First Butterfly.
  As I was returning to the house this evening after
a walk through the orchard I heard the sound 
of a Woodcock's wings at first faintly but finally
with great distinctness. The bird seemed to be mounting
upward in a spiral nearly over the house and I
felt sure that it was about to sing but the whistling
soon ceased and no song succeeded it nor did
I heard the bird again. This happened about half-an-
hour after sunset.
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