CONCORD. 
1893 
May 22 
• 
Ball»s 
Hill 
Birds seen 
and heard 
in the 
early 
morning; 
Faxon called me at daybreak and together we listened 
for half an hour or more, standing part of the time in the 
door of the cabin but not going out. There was practically 
no singing, although the morning was still and clea as well 
as rather warm. We heard, indeed, a Robin, a Redwing, Song 
Sparrows and a few other common birds but there were fre¬ 
quent intervals of dead silence — for several seconds at 
a time. A little after sunrise we dressed and walked around 
behind Ball’s Hill. There were a good many small birds 
in and near the swamp, but they were not singing freely. 
L. f * n 
v?e saw two Black'and Yellow Warblers, both males, 
one singing, a silent Canadian Warbler and a number of fiat 
Birds and Chestnut-sided Warblers besides several Wilson* s 
Thrushes, and Oven Birds and three Redstarts, all males in 
full song. There was a Water Thrush on the river front and 
a Tanager and Black-throated Green Warbler on Ball’s Hill. 
A Wilson*s Black-cap was singing quite steadily near the 
east end of the Hill and a Black-poll Warbler in front of 
one 
the cabin. We heard two Partridges drumming, e-ve-r in the 
Blakeman woods, the other on the Bedford shore opposite 
Ball's Hill. A Dove, the only one that I have heard this 
month, also cooed a few times near the West Bedford station. 
The Bittern pumped a few times in the distance up river, 
apparently near Dakin’s Hill. 
On talking over the matter last evening we both 
agreed that there should be a goodly number of migrants this 
morning but the Black and Yellow Warblers were the only 
