CONCORD. 
£ 
1895 
tober 15 
To Ball's 
Hill 
A severe cold confined me to the house on the 11th, 
12th, and lSth. Yesterday was spent in Cambridge and Boston. 
To-day I went to Ball's Hill. 
B etween 3 P. M. on the 12th and 8 P. M. on the 13th 
over 
-pur five inches of rain fell and the river rose more than 
three feet, flooding the meadows. The current was very 
strong this morning and I had a swift passage, using the 
paddle but lightly. 
Titlarks 
a light in 
tree 
W ood Ducks 
At the Holt I saw a flock of about 30 Titlarks slight 
in the upper branches of a large, leafless ash where they 
sat for several minutes, preening their feathers. If I 
remember rightly, it is unusual for them to perch in trees. 
On reaching Holden's Hill, I paddled across the meadow' 
and was on the point of landing wfhen four Wood Ducks rose 
from the w r ater at the edge of the bushes and flew r down 
river towards Ball's Hill -where I afterwrards started them 
a second time nearly in front of the cabin. The flock 
consisted of one female, one drake in apparently full plu¬ 
mage and two young drakes which had about half comnleted 
the change from young to mature plumage. 
Fligh t 
of the 
Partr idge 
Whi&e walking about over Holden's Hill, I started a 
Partridge and heard two Gray Squirrels barking. A Part - 
ridge on rising uttered a lov;, rolling, murmuring, whist¬ 
ling sound evidently vocal. This note, which I have heard 
countless times before but never considered carefully 
