CONCORD 
To Ball 1 s Hill . 
1892 
July 14 
tr— 
Bobolinks 
flocking 
Song. 
Sparrows 
lotted 
Sandpipers 
perching on 
trees 
To Ball's Hill at 11 A. M. Now and then I sailed 
for a few hundred yards but the paddle accomplished most 
of the distance. Robins, Red-eyed Vireos and Song Sparrows 
were singing freely and I heard a Field Sparrow on Dakin's 
Hill and a Cat-bird at Benson's landing. 
Bobolinks have apparently relapsed into utter silence 
save for the autumn call-note which is now constantly heard 
in the air overhead and which to my ear is distinctly pink , 
not chink , as usually rendered. I saw one flock of seven 
of these birds, this morning, circling over a field of oats, 
and early in the afternoon upwards of forty, feeding on the 
heads of wild grasses in Holden's meadow. There were 
several old males (apparently in unchanged breeding dress) 
among them, but the majority appeared to be females and 
young. They must have been unusually successful in rearing 
their broods this year for continuous bad weather late in 
June prevented the farmers from cutting any grass to speak 
of until after July 4th. 
Song Sparrows are singing still at all hours of 
the day and as freely and vigorously as at any time earlier 
in the season. 
On my way down river I saw several Spotted Sand¬ 
pipers perching on dead branches of willows or alders over 
the water. This habit is not of course peculiar to any 
season but I think it is much more prevalent now than in 
spring and that most of these perchers are young of this year, 
