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Spring and early summer.
Concord, Mass.
1913.
March 15 
to 
July 3 (No 5)

entire farm practically free from cats. They did not begin 
to invade it numerously until early last autumn, a month or
two after he and his equally surly master had departed.

Deer

  Deer have been very scarce this season. My men saw no signs 
of them during the winter and I noticed their tracks in only 
a few places during the spring. A large doe appeared in the 
field in front of the house on the evening of May 31 [May 31, 1913] after which 
she left tracks there on several occasions and in our flower garden, also.

Pheasants

  The increase in the number of Ring-necked Pheasants during
the past two years has been very marked. They seem now to 
greatly outnumber he Ruffed grouse. In April and May one could 
hear them crowing at morning and evening in every direction, far & 
near, both at the Farm and at Ball's Hill.

Starlings

  Another imported avian pest, the Starling, appeared in Concord
this spring for the first time. I saw a [male] near Ball's Hill on May 8 [May 8, 1913], 
another near Flint's Bridge on the 22 [May 22, 1913], a pair in the latter place on June 8 [June 8, 1913], a 
[female] near West Bedford Station on June 21 [June 21, 1913].