CONCORD 
Evening at Ball's Hill , 
1892 
July 19 
Birds singing 
at and 
after sunset 
Rose-breasted 
Grosbeak 
[jipent most of(the)day in the house, writing, but] late 
in the afternoon started for Ball's Hill, having a glorious 
sail down in my decked canoe. On reaching my cabin I left 
my things there and walked to Benson's by way of the river 
path, returning past Davis's Hill and through my swamp. [At 
6 P. M. I had tea in my cabin and at 7.30 started for 
home, paddling most of the way. 
The high wind had its usual effect on the birds 
and I saw but few and heard fewer still until near sunset 
when the wind abated and many began singing. I heard Robins, 
a Bluebird, and a Field Sparrow near Benson's; a Black-throated 
Green Warbler in the pines above the glacial hollow; and 
at 7 P. M., as I stood on the shore in front of my cabin, 
Robins, a Veery, an Oven-bird (flight song), a Short-billed 
Marsh Wren, Maryland Yellow-throat, Song and Swamp Sparrows, 
a Rose-breasted Grosbeak (singing continuously and with 
great vigor and spirit),a. Quail and ane Red-winged Black¬ 
bird. Most of these were on the opposite (Bedford) side of 
the river.^i 
Dove's nest 
Visited the Dove's nest at 5.30 P. M. Female on. 
When started, she fluttered downward in a half circle as 
usual but alighted on a branch a few feet above the ground 
and did not repeat the wounded bird performance. After 
sitting quietly for a moment, she rose and flew off through 
the trees. Young of apparently equal size and about as large 
as Bluebirds, their shoulders and wings covered with sprouting 
