Middlesex Co., Mass [Middlesex County, Massachusetts]
1874
Oct. 10 [October 10, 1874] Cloudy & rainy most of the day.
Spent the afternoon in town. R. Deane [Ruthven Deane]
went up on the meadows this
morning but saw no snipe. Heard
Junco hyemalis this evening.
  Sunday Oct. 11 [October 11, 1874] Clear & a lovely Autumn day, with S. [south]
wind. In forenoon took a drive
through Waverly up into the willows
and back over the hill by way of
Prospect St. Saw Juncos in numbers,
one large flock of D. striata [Dendroica striata] and
many stragglers, a few Pooecetes
gramineus and numbers of robins.
Saw also a Circus Hudson. [Circus hudsonius] & a very
fine Buteo borealis sitting on a locust
tree near the road. I forgot to note
a flock of 10 Ampelis cedrorum which
I saw in the swamps on the 9th inst.
  Oct. 13 [October 13, 1984] Cloudy & cold. Took the 2.15 train for
Concord yesterday and spent the night
at the French's. This morning Dan [Daniel Chester French]
& I took a row up N. branch [North branch] without
a gun. A short distance above Egg 
rock we came suddenly upon a Fulix
Affinis and almost at the same instant
a brace of wood duck (one a magnificent
drake) came rushing down the steep
bank and launching into the water sat
near the scaup watching us. The next
moment all three took wing, two of
them keeping on up river while the wood