CONCORD 
1893 
September 9 
Ball * s 
Hill 
Mixed 
flocks 
To Ball’s Hill at 9 A. M. with Mr. Hubbard, taking 
the two canoes. Just below Flint’s Bridge we came upon a 
large mixed flock which included several Blackbirds, a 
V/hite-bellied Nuthatch, Chickadees (singing), a Pine Warbler 
(singing softly), two or three Black-polls, a number of 
Chipping and Song Sparrows, one Savanna Sparrow, a Goldfinch, 
a Downy 7/oodpecker, and a Cat Bird. They were congregated 
in the tops of the elms on both sides of the river and kept 
flying back and forth across it, shuttle-wise. 
At Ball’s Hill we found an equally large flock of 
woodland b irds, three Red- eyed Vireos, three Tanagers, a 
great number of Chickadees and Black-polls, a Red-start, 
two Downy Woodpeckers and a Pine Warbler. They were among 
the oaks and pines along the south slope of the hill. Near 
the cabin a Wilson* s’ Thrush started up from among some 
ferns and several Song Sparrows were dodging about in the 
bushes near the path. Jays screamed at intervals and a 
Red-shouldered Hawk occasionally. 
loung T anagers The Scarlet Tanagers were an old female accompanied 
by her two young, which although in full autumn plumage 
followed their mother about closely and begged continually 
for food, uttering a monotonous hue , very like the call 
of a young Purple Finch, and a low, wheezy sound which was 
so nearly like that made by some young Red-eyed Vireos that 
I had just been watching that I could detect no difference. 
