Concord, Mass.
1902
April 9
  The storm which began yesterday afternoon
increased in violence through the night reaching
its climax early this morning. The north-east
wind blew a living gale and the rain for hour
after hour came down as heavily as it often
does at the height of a thunder shower.
  In spite of the noise & turmoil of the elements
our Ball's Hill Phoebe began singing soon after
daybreak and with but brief intermission kept
it up until well into the forenoon.
  The Fox Sparrows also sang fairly & well near the
cabin but I heard no other birds until late in the 
day.
  The rain ceased about noon but the N.E. wind
blew with only slightly abated force and the
air was thick with driving mist until nightfall.
  I went to the farm in the afternoon hearing 
a Carolina Dove cooing in Prescott's Pines and
a Partridge drumming in the Barrett Run.
  On the way back I heard three Robins
singing and saw a Marsh Hawk (a female I thought)
flying over Pine Park.
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