Ruffed- 
Grouse 
have 
ceased 
drumming 
was a Wood Thrush in the trees calling in low tones* 
We returned to Concord late in the afternoon, sail¬ 
ing most of the way. Two Bitterns pumping. Bobolinks singing 
on every side. In the early evening, after supper, we took 
a short walk, going as far as the Damsdale where I hoped to 
find a Partridge drumming as C. has never heard one but they 
were all silent. Probably their drumming season is over for 
the summer. 
There were many common birds singing in the 
Damsdale woods. A Thrasher had a peculiarly hoarse voice as 
if it were suffering from a bad cold. Actually one could 
Thrasher 
with not hear any portion of its song 100 yards away although the 
hoarse 
voice, evening was almost perfectly still. 
The heat to-day brought out the leaves very 
rapidly and by evening the woods were dense with foliage. 
Advance of 
the D r agon flies appeared for the first time and I heard a few 
season 
summer crickets chirping. 
