Concord, Mass.
1911.
March 12
[March 12, 1911]

Crow with peculiar caw at or near
Ball's Hill from May 1910 to March 1911.

  During a visit made to Ball's Hill this forenoon I saw at 
least a dozen Crows flying about over the meadows or walking
on the fields of ice that still border the open channel of the
river. Among them was the bird with the peculiar caw-car-r-r
cry which was so constantly in evidence last year from May
to November. It is as strongly accented on the second syllable
as ever and in this respect is unlike any Crow call I have
ever heard from any any other bird. Pat tells me that this
particular Crow spent the entire winter here. He heard it
not only at Ball's Hill but also half way up along the
railroad in the direction of Concord. We used to hear it
about the Ritchie place & Birch Field last autumn but never
anywhere to the north or west of the farm house. It was
everywhere and at all times the same peculiar cry.

White-bellied Nuthatches visit last year's nest

  The pair of White-bellied Nuthatches are haunting the
farm as usual and the male was calling wot-wot-wot
several days ago & since. I saw both birds together in 
the elm in front of the old barn this morning. As I
was watching them first the [male] and then the [female] flew
to the hole in which they reared their brood last year. 
I thought that both entered it but could not make
sure for it is in the upper side of a big horizontal
branch and hence invisible from the ground. These
Nuthatches range rather widely over the place. I met
with them yesterday in Prescott's Pines and I have known
them to go as far to the southward as Mr. Howe's.
They are sure to be in the elms about our house
every calm, fine morning at this season. The [male] visited
some suet that we put up yesterday in the lilacs for
the first time this afternoon.