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CONCORD. 
1899 
Apri l 7 
light at 
the Cabin 
First Pine 
Warbler 
'Water-fowl 
Effects of 
ice-storm 
Spent last night at the cabin. For the first time 
since I came to Concord this spring, the ground did not freeze, 
yet the early morning was raw and gloomy and no birds were 
singing. None were seen near tne cabin until nearly noon, 
when a Chickadee and a pair of Downies visited the 
Gilbert also heard a Pine Warbler (the first) singing on the 
crest of Ball’s Hill. There were no Sparrows along the 
river front. 
"^Ashton Rollins spent last night and to-day with me. 
He sailed over the Great Meadows and down river to Birch 
Island in the forenoon, seeing an Osprey, 20 Gooseanders 
and 15 Whistlers. Landing at Davis's Hill we started two 
Partridges and found two Leopard Frogs on the shore. No 
Batrachian voices yet^ 
The Davis Hill woods were seriously injured by the 
ice-storm of March 19. The ground is so covered with 
of March 19th broken-off tops and branches that it is difficult to traverse 
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these woods. The white'pines, hickories, elms and 
suffered most. At the Barrett farm great injury was done 
especially to the fine old elms and hickories near the 
house. The ice is said to have loaded the trees and to 
have remained for several days, a heavy wind adding greatly 
to the destruction. Under (the) white pines the ground 
is densely carpeted with tufts of green needles which the 
ice broke off.. One of my white willows has been almost 
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