Concord, Mass.
1912.
September
& 
October.

Ring-necked Pheasants.

  Pheasants have multiplied exceeding [exceedingly] at Concord during
the past two or three years. About our place they were, for the
first time, decidedly more numerous than Ruffed Grouse this autumn.
In the Ball's Hill region their favorite haunts were the river
meadows and bordering fields where they fed by day and
rested by night in tall grass. Often I would see them at 
sunset flying out into the very middle of the meadows & 
alighting there in rank grass or sedge. At evening & in the 
early morning they were very noisy & we might hear their
cackling outcries coming from every side far & near. At the
Farm, where they were equally numerous & vociferous, they fed
chiefly in Lawrence's & Howe's wide grass fields and in a
large patch of standing sweet corn directly in front of our house.
Once an old cock was seen eating grain with our chickens
in the poultry yard. Although they came fairly close
about the house & sometimes alighted in the driveway