Concord, Mass.
1912.
March 30
[March 30, 1912]

  Brilliantly clear with light northerly wind. Cool.
  Gilbert and I moved to Concord to-day, he coming
up in the early morning, I at 2.08 P.M.
  The river is about at its normal April pitch
the meadows being about 3 feet under water, the roadway
around the south side of Ball's Hill perhaps a foot
above the flood. The snow & ice are wholly gone
save in deep, pine shaded hollows. The roads are
settled & dry, the fields sticky & moist with much
frost yet to come out. Very little green grass except
on the summit slopes where the winds do not strike.
  Red-wings and song Sparrows singing far & near
along the river at sunset. Caught a glympse [glimpse] of a flying
Whistler & heard his wings. George Holden passing in his
canoe hunting Musk rats. Heard no shots. Saw a Musk Rat
which he failed to see. It was swimming near shore in
the Barrett Meadow. No Frogs or Hylas.
Phoebe in full song at Ball's Hill. Pat saw [?] enter shed this morning.