CONCORD. 
Evening; Wa.lk to Bow Meadow . 
1893 
July 30 
Birds singing; 
at evening 
Dendroica 
blackburniae 
Concert by 
Wood 
Thrushes 
I did not go out to-day until after tea, when I 
started for a walk up the Estabrook Road. ^Keeping on past 
Clark's, I turned into Dutton's Lane and followed it through 
to Bow Meadow. For the first part of the way — in the open 
country — I heard Robins, Grass Finches, Sbng Sparrows, 
Meadow Larks and Quail, but the singing here was much less 
vigorous and general than it has been heretofore. The 
swamp beyond Dutton's was without a single songster of any 
kind and at Bow Meadow I heard only five birds — a Wood 
Thrush, Blank-throated Green Warbler, Oven-bird(ordinary song), 
Black-billed Cuckoo and Red-shouldered Hawklj 
In Clark's woods, which I did not reach until 7.15, 
when the light was getting dim under the arches of the grand 
old trees,jgthree Wood Thrushes, an Oven-bird, a Blackburnian 
Warbler , a Grosbeak (in full song), a Tanager, a Black-billed 
Cuckoo and a Wood Pewee were heard. The Oven-bird gave the 
flight song. The Blackburnian sang twice — in the top of a 
tall white pine. All the others sang vigorously and persis¬ 
tently ,~] 
The concert of Wood Thrushes was simply the finest 
that I ever listened to. There were three of them close 
about me at one time and they fairly made the woods ring. 
With this species as with the Hermit there is much individual 
variation in quality of voice and variety and ease of execution 
and, as it happened, all three of the birds in Clark's woods 
