CONCORD. 
Damsdale 
1893 
ebruary 8 
Buteo lineatus 
Kinglet 
Goldfinches 
foff on foot at 3 P. M,, walking through Mr. Derby's 
lane up the Damsdale meadow, and beyond to the grove of 
Scotch pines on the Pratt farm, returning around the west 
base of Punkatasset and through Pratt’s nursery. 
Saw a Red-shouldered Hawk,a fine adult bird, in the 
Damsdale and Chickadees in four different planes, never more 
than three together and usually only' f■ o, a Kinglet with one 
P a ir. Among some dense pines I came suddenly on two Gold¬ 
finches hopping about on the snow under a prostrate, snow¬ 
laden Dirch, picking up the fallen seeds. They were very tame 
and interesting."? 
Gray and Red 
Squirrels 
out in 
forc e 
V 
During the last autumn and winter Squirrels have 
been exceedingly scarce, apparently, but I begin to suspect 
that like the Rabbits they are changing their habits and 
becoming more wary and retiring. At least since the last 
snow came I have found their tracks in nearly every piece 
of woods and this afternoon I smw and heard no less than six , 
three Red and three Gray. One of the Red Squirrels was 
running along a wall, another was ”chittering"and making a 
gnawing sound (precisely like a Rat gnawing a board) in a 
pasture oak, while the third "wound his clock" in a grove of 
white pines,the only time that I have hes.rd this sound since 
la.st October. The Gray Squirrels were all together in the 
woods at the base of Punkatasset, at first in some lea.fless 
chestnuts, where they galloped about over the ice-coated 
