CONCORD. 
1892 
"Rush" of 
Black-poll 
Warblers 
A familia r 
Chipmunk 
A Gray 
Squirrel 
visits the 
cabin 
dJ^fe’en' to 
high land 
by the 
flood 
Ball 1 s Hill . 
This was a Black-poll Warbler day. When I rose 
at 6 A. M. and looked out the door of my little cabin the 
trees and bushes along the river front were simply swarming 
with them. I counted twenty at one time within an area of 
a few square yards. The majority were males. There were 
also several Wilson's Black-caps, Canadian Warblers, Red¬ 
starts, Yellow-throats and Swamp Sparrows and one 
Thrush. I did not wake in time for the daylight singing. 
Passed the morning setting our pines on the 
burnt track. At one time when I had retired to the cabin 
to rest a Chipmunk climbed to the threshold of the door 
and sat there for several minutes regarding me with calm 
curiosity. When I first rose in the morning I heard a 
rustling in the leaves under my window and looking out saw 
a Gray Squirrel rooting in the ground for acorns. He passed 
the door and then went out over the water through the tops 
of the bushes to the outer line of flooded maples whence he 
returned an hour later, retracing his course pa.st the cabin 
and up the hill side with slow walking steps, going back 
over exactly the same ground. I fear he was searching for 
birds' eggs. 
At intervals during the day I saw black snakes 
of various sizes in or under the trees and bushes along the 
river, I suppose the flood has driven them out of the 
meadow 
