C0I1C0RD 
1902 
May 25 
I went to Concord late yesterday afternoon, with 
Erjrest Seton Thompson, who passed the night with me at the 
cabin. There was a heavy thunder shower shortly after eight 
o*clock. During its continuance the Garden Toads along the 
squawking 
river kept up their harsh (summer) sqawkiag without the 
slightest cessation. 
[Later in the night the moon (nearly full) came out 
for brief intervals during which I occasionally heard a 
Bittern pump or an Oven-bird sing on wing directly over the 
cabi n. 
I was awake at daybreak this morning when the birds 
began singing in the following order i — Phoebe, Bittern, 
Robin, Veery, Red-wings, Black and White Creeper as sooxi as 
the light showed in the East; Tanagers, Bobolinks and Red¬ 
eyed Vireos at sunrise; Rose-breasted Grosbeak shortly after 
sunrise. / 
Seton and I spent the whole forenoon in the woods, 
to the Farm by way of Davis’s Hill and Birch Island, 
returning through the oak woods past the spring and over 
Pine Ridge. Tanagers and Grosbeaks seemed to me less numerous 
than usual but all the other summer residents were in about 
their usual numbers. There were a good many Black-poll 
Warblers singing, especially in the orchard at the Farm. We 
heard three Canadian Warblers, one in Ball’s Hill Swamp, the 
other two behind Davis's Hill, both breeding grounds for 
their species. There was a silent Water Thrush by the river 
