Concord, Mass.
1902
March 29
  Rained heavily through the forenoon; afternoon and
evening cloudy, at times misty. Wind S.W. Mild.
  Took 2.05 P.M. train for Concord. Gilbert met
me at West Bedford and rowed me across the river.
The water has fallen so that some of the higher
points on the meadows are exposed.
  At the cabin I found Hepaticas nearly ready
to open (they were in full bloom in the garden at
Cambridge on the 16th). Heard a Fox Sparrow lisping
on the hillside and saw one & heard another behind
the Hill. Found deer tracks on the causeway that
crosses the swamp.
  There were five or six Robins in Bensen's field
and a Hairy Woodpecker in the elms near his house.
Saw one Bluebird & heard another on our way
to the farm.
  Late in the afternoon I walked about the
outskirts of the cultivated fields near the house.
Heard a Bluebird, a Robin, several Song Sparrows
and a Phoebee singing and started a big cock
Partridge and a large Woodcock both in the Barrett
Run. Crows were cawing and two were walking
about in the cow pasture. Heard a Kinglet
& several Chickadees in the woods.
  In the opening behind Ball's Hill Gilbert & I noticed
this afternoon that most of the branches of a large
ground juniper had been cut cleanly off at a height of
about 2 ft. above the ground. All the cuts were made
diagonally across the branches. In the Barrett run I found
a wild apple tree whose lower branches had been pruned
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