CONCORD. 
1892 
April 25 
Estabrook 
woods 
at sunset 
A Rabbit 
squeals 
[To Ash Swamp at 10.30 A.M. driving up With 
George, and sending the horse back by a stable boy. 
Spent the entire day digging spice bushes, horn¬ 
beams, and yellow birches in the pasture on the northern 
side of the swamp. A Robin and Song Sparrow the only 
singing 
birds/within hearing.! 
At 5 P.M. started to walk home through the woods • 
I have never, I-think, seen the country more beautiful at 
this season. The late afternoon light was wonderfully pure 
and strong yet very soft and tender. The air was perfectly 
still. Hy^as peeping and Robins and Song Sparrows singing. 
A loud squealing outcry in a maple copse near the old orchard 
north of the swamp attracted my attention to a female 
Hairy Woodpecker which was flying from tree to tree. As I 
was passing through Hubbard pasture I was startled by 
another and different squeal, short, sharp and metallic. It 
came from under a young pine within a rod of me and I 
heard something jump in the dry leaves. The next instant 
a Rabbit () dashed out and bounded 
across a space of dpen, hard, turfy ground, thumping as it 
ran. It will be remembered that I heard one utter a pre¬ 
cisely similar squeal near Ball's Hill in the winter. 
fj followed the lime-kiln ridge south and then 
crossed to the path through the "Common Lot". As I came 
out into Pratt's pasture a Hermit Thrush began singing 
