1878 Nantucket
Aug. [August] 15. Cloudy with a driving
fog and occasional light rain. 
Drove over to the bathing beach
in the forenoon and I took
my usual dip but C. [Carry] did not
go in to day.
  Starting at 4 P.M. we drove
nearly over to Sconset. I took
my gun along and shot a
fine Short eared Owl. It was 
sitting on a low dead branch
on the edge of one of the blighted
pine tracts, apparently watching
for its prey. I heard among 
some low oak scrub a Pipilo
erythropthalmus [sic] [erythrophthalmus] and also a
Geothlypis trichas. 
  A beautiful scarlet lily was
in bloom along the roadside
and several other flowers
that we did not know, were
seen. Reached the house at
8 P.M.
1878  Nantucket
Aug. [August] 16 Friday Cloudy most of
the day with frequent showers. Started 
at 10 A. M. with Mr. Reynolds for a 
day up the harbor taking my guns
and bass rod. Had a very enjoy-
able day, landing six small
blue fish with rod and reel (besides
loosing off three) and shooting
a number of birds. Got back to
the town at 5 P.M.
  Took the Hydrochelidon plumbra 2 juv [juveniles]
Sterna frenata 1 juv. [juvenile]. S. [Sterna] paradisea
one adult [female]; Sterna hirundo six;
Strepsilas interpres one (adult);
Ammodramus caudacutus 2 juv. [juveniles]
Saw six Hy. [Hydrochelidon]  plumbra, about the
same number of S. [Sterna] frenata, only
two S. [Sterna] paradisea and swarms
of S. [Sterna] hirundo. On a marsh near 
Wauwinet were several Tot. [Totanus] melanoluca
a pair of T. [Turdus] flavifrons, and numberless
Aeg. [Aegialitis] semipalmata and "Peeps".
Terns apparently as plenty as in 1874.