CONCORD 
1398 
larch 20 
[At sunrise a Robin, a Meadow Lark, a Flicker, and 
several Song Sparrows were singing near the house and I also 
heard Blue Jays and a Nuthatch. The Meadow Lark gave me a 
or twenty 
delightful serenade which lasted fifteen/minutes. He was 
very near — apparently on the lawn near the pagoda — and 
I had a rare opportunity to study the various changes and 
modulations of his song. These are the renderings that I 
noted at the time: T’sit-tsit; tsao, tsit-tsln; tsao-tsce; 
tsao, tsee-tseV -e; tsee , tsefe-tsin ; tsee , tex-tzee ; tsee , 
tser-tsee . After he had flown away to another and more dis¬ 
tant field, I heard him give the flight song and for the 
first time it reminded me of the song of the Skylark.J 
At 10 A. M. I started down river, making very rapid 
progress under my little storm sail. Saw four Herring Gulls 
flying over Great Meadow. Spent the day at or near the cabin. 
[Two Fox Sparrows feeding on the seed which we keep on the 
banking in front of the door. They were silent and very 
tame. Several Song Sparrows with 
The wind blew a living gale all the afternoon and 
I had given up all thought of attempting to get back to 
Concord when it began to abate and I finally started about 
6.30 and paddled up in an hour. Before starting I took a 
walk around the eastern end of Ball’s Hill, starting a 
Partridge and seeing fifteen or twenty Robins flying in to 
the old spring roost in the dense, bushy pines on the edge 
of the swamp. They all came across the river from the West 
Bedford shore. Several of them sang for a minute or two 
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