CONCORD 
At 11 A. M. I walked up through Bensen’s field and 
hack around the Hill. Started a Partridge and heard a Chicka¬ 
dee singing merrily in the storm, N 
The snow ceased falling about 1 P, M. and by 4 P. M. 
the sky was clear and the north wind had strengthened and 
become colder. Yet almost with the first gleams of sunshine 
the snow disappeared like magic and by sunset there was 
scarce a trace of it.XiX'. 
\spent the afternoon digging some young trees and 
shrubs to take to Cambridge. Saw few birds excepting close 
about the cabin where the Junccs, nine in number at dinner 
time, had increased to fifteen or twenty. The Fox and 
Tree Sparrows sang superbly at times, their wild, clear note s 
intermingling with each other and with the simple trills of 
tiXst-oj f 
the Juncos. I have noticed before this that all these 
species sing better and very much more freely during or just 
after a snow-storm than in any other kind of weather. The 
Fox Sparrows sang almost incessantly during the hardest part 
of the storm to-day. The Robins, on the other hand, were 
absolutely silenced by it and I did not hear one this evening- 
after the sky had cleared. The Song Sparrows sang a very 
little throughout the storm.J 
The Rough-legged Hawk [mentioned abovgl was perched 
in the large red oak at the east end of Ball's Hill. Three 
or four Crows were clustered about him, cawing excitedly. 
9 
