CONCORD 
1896 
;il 22 
I spent the forenoon with Pat and Bensen, burning 
a huge pile of brush in the lower part of the Prescott lot 
near the swamp. In the afternoon we visited this fire 
twice and also planted a number of small pines near the 
cabin and elsewhere in the Ball's Hill piece, 
I took supper in the cabin and did not start for 
the Keyes' until some time after sunset. During the 
ascent of the river I saw at least seven or eight Muskrats 
by far the largest number observed this spring. I also 
saw a Spotted Sandpiper and heard a. number of Snipe, two 
of which were drumming steadily near the upper end of 
Great Meadows where I landed and listened to them for some 
time, but of this more anon. 
The arrivals to-day were the Brown Thrasher (one in 
full song in the evening twilight on a hillside near Hunt's 
Pond), Eave Swallow (one heard distinctly at Ball's Hill 
in the late afternoon), Chimney Swift (one twittering at 
sunset high in air over the cabin) , Spotted Sandpiper (one 
at Hunt's Pond, seen this morning by Bat and this evening 
by me). I also saw my first Marsh Hawk this afternoon 
(a male, skimming along the river near the cabin) and this 
evening heard my first Great Horned Owl. The latter 
hooted three times in the direction of Holden's Hill as 
I was paddling up the Beaver Dam Rapid, but the sound 
seemed too distant to come from the Hill and I suspect that 
the bird was beyond and probably in Mrs. Barrett's woods. 
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