CAMBRIDGE TO CONCORD. 
1891 
April 5 
Many 
Sparrows 
Starting at 9.30 with Almy I drove to Concord 
by way of [the Lyman place, Sweedenborgian Settlement, and 
Lincoln. The sunshine was bright and cheerful but the wind 
bitterly cold. We saw no snow until just before we 
reached Lincoln. Between Lincoln and Concord the northern 
exposures were white with it and it lay two inches deep in 
swamps and under pines. Wachusett white from base to sum¬ 
mit. 
The country was alive with birds. In fact I 
have not seen a heavier flight for years. Robins, Song 
Sparrows, Fox Sparrows, Tree Sparrows and Juncos were the 
most numerously represented. All four species of Sparrows 
were often seen in one flock but we saw some flocks com¬ 
posed wholly of Juncos and one of Fox Sparrows — about 
twenty birds. They were mostly in old fields along bush- 
grown walls or among weeds or stubble. In places they rose 
in clouds at our approach, flying into the nearest bushes 
or woods. 
On the Geo. Keyes place in Concord I heard Fox 
Sparrows singing and following up the sound came upon 
twenty or more in company with about an equal number of 
Tree Sparrows and Juncos. They were flitting in and out 
among some hazel bushes and wild cherry saplings that bor¬ 
dered a stone wall, occasionally venturing out a little way 
