CONCORD. 
1902 
>ril 10 
[Our Phoebe and a Fox Sparrow were singing near the 
cabin shortly after daybreak. An hour later I saw two 
White-bellied Swallows flying over the river. A Chickadee 
was also whistling near at hand. 
On reaching Birch Field at anout 9 A. M. I found two 
Carolina Doves cooing near the spring. They were perched 
in the tops of large oaks about fifty yards apart and seemed 
to be answering one another. Both flew as soon as they saw 
me, going off in different directions. An hour later one 
began cooing in the woods on the opposite (north) side of 
the field. 
A Partridge drummed most of the forenoon in the 
woods just mentioned. This is a new drumming station 
although I have frequently heard birds on the south and west 
side of Birch Field. 
The strong, cold north wind seemed to have banished 
nearly all the birds from the immediate neighborhood of the 
Farm-house where I spent the afternoon. Indeed, I noted 
there only a solitary Junco, a Robin or two and a Bluebird. 
I heard two Song Sparrows singing, however, in the distance 
towards Lawrence* s^ 
My walk back to the cabin this evening proved excep¬ 
tionally interesting. It was nearly six o*clock when I 
started. The mist-laden air seemed comparatively warm but 
this was perhaps due chiefly to the fact that the wind had 
lulled to a mere breath. Robins were singing in every 
/S' 
