CONCORD 
1901 
October 16 
At sunrise this morning and for nearly two hours 
later a pair of Red-shouldered Hawks were screaming on the 
West Bedford edge of the meadows opposite Ball’s Hill 
and at half-past eight I heard two others (they may have 
been the same) opposite Davis’s Hill and saw one of them 
perched in a nearly leafless elm. As I paddled down river 
I saw numbers of Swamp Sparrows and heard one Song Sparrow 
sing once in full, finished tones quite as in spring. 
In Birch Field I found two Yellow Red-po^l Warblers, 
At the farm there were Robins and a Flicker in the orchard, 
a dozen Bluebirds accompanied by as many Chippies flitting 
about in Lawrence’s field, a Nuthatch and a Creeper in 
the elms near the house, and Yellow-rumps scattered about 
everywhere. 
The men,while casting away a large pile of gravel 
that has not been disturbed since last spring, came on a 
chipmunk’s store-house at a depth of about three feet 
below the surface. It was a naarly circular chamber about 
ten inches across by three inches in height and was crammed 
full of green sweet corn and shelled or rather husked 
kickory nuts. 
When I reached the river this evening and started 
out in the canoe to paddle up to Ball’s Hill, tArilight was 
falling, I could heaj? Swamp Sparrows chirping far and near 
in every direction and every nov/ and then one of them would 
give the full spring song, A Song Sparrow also sang twice 
but more feebly and brokenly than the one I heard this 
morning. 
