CONCORD 
1892 
February 
21-25 
's Hill 
these five days the weather has been 
uniformly warm, the thermometer ranging from 40 to 45° 
at noon and seldom falling much below 30° at night. 
The wind has remained constantly in the E. or N.E. 
Monday (22nd) was clear, the other four days have been 
cloudy but we have had no rain or snow. The snow which 
for the preceding two or three weeks has covered the 
ground to the depth of a foot or more has melted so 
( During 
Dytlscus 
(Water Beetle) 
gradually that the brooks and river have not been percep¬ 
tibly swollen although now the ground is bare in many 
places (the S. side of Ball's Hill is entirely bare) and 
the sleighing is all gone. 
I spent all of the five days just mentioned at 
Ball's Hill, superintending the erection of my log house. 
Spelman and Hayward with me on the 22nd when we found a 
number of water beetles, including six specimens of the 
Beetle 
large Dytlsc us verticalis (Yellow-bordered Water/ ), in 
or near holes in the ice which the pickerel fishermen had 
cut. On this day I also saw the first Skunk tracks. On 
the evening of the 24th I saw a beautiful adult male 
Golden-eye 
Duck 
Golden-eye flying over a space of open water just above 
Bensen* s landing. It had apparently just risen from the 
water and after circling a few times flew off up river, 
CrWper 
its wings whistling loudly. There was a Brown Creeper 
in the pines on Ball's Hill on the 25th (the first I have 
Hairy and Downy 
Woodpeckers 
seen there since December) and a Hairy and Downy Woodpecker 
in the oaks on the back side of the hill. 
