^ CONCORD. 
1907 
April 4 
l^ox Sparrows to the niiraber of a dozen or more 
had gathered at the seed bed in front of the cabin by 
sunrise but the first Juncos did not appear there until 
about half an hour later. Both species were singing almost 
continuously up to 10 A. M,, not only in the woods on 
M-l’s Hill but elsewhere, wherever I went. They appeared 
to be scattered numerously over the entire open country 
on the West Bedford side of the river when I visited it 
not long after breakfast. Such a delightful concert as 
they gave me there, I have seldom listened to in recent 
years. From far and near, on every hand, their voices 
rose, filling my ears unceasingly. There were also the 
songs of many Song Sparrows and Red-wings and of one or 
two Tree Sparrows, besides the distant "shouting” of a 
Flicker and less far off, from the tall oaks on the edge 
of the meadow, the measured, impressive cooing of a 
Carolina Dove^ 
Immediately after breakfast and before crossing 
the river I teard, thrice repeated, the Cuckoo-like out¬ 
cry of a Pied-billed Grebe and twice its whinnying call. 
These sounds came from the bend of the river just below 
Ball’s Hill where the bird must have been concealed 
surface of the open 
among the flooded maples or button bushes,for the glossy/ 
water would have at once betrayed its presence had it 
been swimmir^ there. I noted the Cuckoo call thus: 
