Concord, Mass.
1910
Sept. 29
[September 29, 1910]

  Clear and cool with light easterly winds. Early morning
calm and brilliantly clear with warm sunlight.

General & sustained singing of many Song Sparrows in early morning.

  As I was on my way from the landing across the
river to the West Bedford Station about eight o'clock this
morning I heard at least a dozen Song Sparrows singing at
short, regular intervals. All seemed to be old birds yet their
voices were subdued and pitched low although their notes were
clear and sweet. One followed another so closely that there was
almost a continuous volume of melodious sound seeming to come
from every direction, far and near, over the green,
seeding fields that border the railway line. It was much like 
the singing we hear in late March and early April when the
Song Sparrows first arrive in force, having the same tender, delicate
quality with a touch of plaintiveness and very unlike the full, strong
singing of late spring & early summer. I do not remember ever hearing
anything like it before in autumn. A Phoebee was in full song near
the cabin & a Pheasant crowing not far off, earlier in the morning.