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CONCORD. 
1899 
Mav 13 
Great 11 rush 11 
of migrants 
Walk through 
woods to 
Barrett 
pla.ce 
jAn immense flight of migrants must have arrived 
last night for the country was swarming with them this fore¬ 
noon. They were nowhere in flocks hut, on the contrary, 
evenly distributed everywhere throughout the woods and 
thickets, at least between Ball's Hill and the Barrett ple.ce. 
There was no raw wind to drive them into sheltered places 
and the foliage is now so advanced that shade and food can 
be had in the thinnest thickets. At Ball's Hill there were 
not nearly so many birds as on yesterday morning. I was 
awake at daybreak and heard but little singing and that of 
the common birds only. 
My walk to the Barrett place immediately after 
breakfast was filled with interest, however, and at times 
with positive excitement. I took the path through the 
blueberry sv/amp to Davis's Hill, thence through Prescott's 
pine woods, past the Barrett spring and through the apple 
orchard to the house, which I reached at about 9 A. M. 
Half an hour la.ter I statted back by a different route — 
through the Barrett run, the oak woods on the road, the road 
itself to Bensen's, and down through the fields to the 
river landing and thence along the river path to the cabin. 
During this walk I saw or heard three Lincoln's 
Finches, a Black and Yellow Warbler, a Canadian Warbler 
(Davis's Hill), three Golden-winged Warblers, four 
Blackburnian Warblers (two on Davis's Sill, one in Prescott's 
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