Concord, Mass.
1911.
March 19
(No 2)
[March 19, 1911]

Holden's Hill
Red-shoul'd Hawks
Ruffed Grouse drumming.
Creeper sings
Black Ducks
Tree Sparrows

soaring high above me, the other ([male]) perched in a dead pine.
A moment later they were answered by a third in the
direction of Ball's Hill. Then a Ruffed Grouse drummed
apparently on the east flank of Holden's Hill and a Tree
creeper sang once, full & clear, in the big oaks near me.
Next I heard the solitary whistle of wings and looking
up saw a pair of Black Ducks circling low over the
woods. They alighted in the river at the head of the
Beaver Dam Rapid near some Crows that were stalking
about on the bordering ice. As I was trying to get
nearer them they either saw or heard me and flew.
Soon after this I heard Tree Sparrows, chirping & making
the tinkling-of-ice sound among some alders by the
river and presently they began singing, one after
another in quick succession, thrilling my ears with their
mild, sweet notes. There were just ten birds in the flock.