CONCORD. 
1906 
November 
2T 
[To Concord by 8.34 A. M, train. Drove directly to 
the farm and spent most of the day in the house, but got 
into the woods twice. About noon I went down into the 
Barrett Run where I found a little flock of wintering 
birds, comprising 6 Chickadees, a Brown Creeper, 2 Golden- 
crests and two ^jYhite-breasted Nuthatches. Another and 
apparently different flock, which I met with in the after¬ 
noon in Pulpit Rock woods, contained 4 or 5 Chickadees, 
2 Golden-crests, and a single White-breasted Nuthatch, 
Still another flock comprised wholly of Chickadees fre¬ 
quented the trees about the house during most of the day. 
Soon after dinner I heard near the house a Flicker 
calling and saw a flock of 4 Lesser Redpolls flying over 
the field towards the Barrett Run, uttering their flight 
calls. 
During the afternoon walk I started 4 Partridges 
together in the woods near the Barrett Spring and a single 
bird from some brush on the hillside just below the old 
barn. This is a greater number than I often (if ever) 
saw in a day last October and I think that there must have 
been a decided increase in the numbers of the birds in 
our woods since I left Concord. 
When I reached the farm this morning I found a 
dozen or more English Sparrows collected in the big for- 
sythia bush in front of the house. These birds have in¬ 
creased very considerably in this neighborhood during the 
