completely stripped of its lateral branches and is little 
Bl^pbirds 
more than a tall, bare pole. The white maples along the 
river suffered a good deal. 
-failed back to Concord in the afternoon, landing 
at Dakin's Hill and visiting the Barrett farm"T[ 
Came upon three Bluebirds in Holden's pasture, a. 
female sitting on a. rock and two males dancing and flut- 
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tering about her with wide-spread tails and half-opened 
wings, warbling in a deliciously soft undertone, each 
evidently striving to outdo the other in the display of 
his beautiful plumage and exquisite voice but neither 
showing the least ill temper. It was indeed a pretty pic¬ 
ture with its setting of bleached grass and a line of 
wasting snow-drifts against the old stone wall that formed 
the background. A Flicker was shouting in an oak and 
Woodcock 
six male Red-wings perched in an apple-tree not far away. 
^Looking for the Woodcock in the Barrett run I 
in Barrett 
found him within twenty yards of where he lay on the 5th - 
Run 
the same small male bird, evidently. I wonder if he will 
remain and brood here. (I afterwards learned that during 
the past week a Woodcock was heard singing several nights 
in succession over the brook meadow west of the Barrett 
house by both George Holden and Henry Lawrence .)[ 
