Concord River Bernicle Can April 8th 1875 Apr. 8 A clear beautiful morning - cloudy by noon - heavy storm in P.M. with rain & snow. Row at 6.30 and with C.W. Carter took the 6.15 train to Concord. Found Jim at the Court house and spent a few minutes talking with him. Then proceeding to Sted. Buttricks we got Jim's boat and headed down river. On the Great Meadows saw a few ducks but did not get a shot. Then we went ashore and brushed the boat. Proceeding on our way we passed Ball's hill and seeing what we took for a whistler (Blue) in the river below I took the paddle and following the boat very slowly and carefully as approached within 30 yds when Charlie shot him dead as he sat on the water. What was our surprise upon picking him up to find that we had killed a finch bon, in adult plumage. He was the smallest bird I ever saw and weighed only 6 oz. though in good condition. As the boat (brushed with Jim's broghe) approached he turned and drew directly for it (probably taking it for an island). A little below this place we found ducks very abundant. The water was all one the meadows and extended back into the woods and paddling through the thickets we passed from on little lake into another, some of them very beautiful with thin shores of thichly growing sorghums. Got only one shot at ducks - a long on at two distinguished Charlie find and missed. We also find