CONCORD 
Walter Deane and I went to the Farm in the fore¬ 
noon, rowing up to Dakin's Hill and walking the remainder 
of the way. 
The water is at a pitch unprecedented within my 
recollection for this season and nearly up to that of the 
early spring floods. The meadows are so deeply submerged 
that no grass is visible anywhere and the tops of most 
of the bushes are covered. We saw only five or six Red-wings 
but found two of their nests in bushes on the edge of the 
woods at Holden's Hill. Most of the birds have evidently 
left the river during the past two weeks. 
Many of the Bobolinks, too, have been driven from 
their usual haunts and this, no doubt, will account for 
their unusual abundance to-day on the Holden farm, where 
we saw three males and a female in the field in front of 
the house. There were also two pairs in the field near 
the Holden spring and a male singing in Lawrence's field. 
We spent several hours walking about in the woods 
and openings at the Farm where we found a large number 
of birds as the following list will show. It contains 
only birds seen or heard on the Farm itself, most of them 
near the house, although a few, including the Blackburnian 
and Black-throated Green Warblers were in the woods near 
Pulpit Rock. The list probably includes nearly all the 
species that are breeding on the Farm this season. 
