1891
May 24
(No 2)
Canoe trip on Concord River.
Mass.
Wayland to Concord.  shy, screaming. The sun streamed
down through the as yet thin foliage and the 
rising South wind ruffled the water. We could
hear church bells softened by distance in the
direction of Saxonville.
  At 9 A.M. we started, padding across the
the pond and down the small brook which forms
its outlet and winds through a broad marsh into the
river on reaching which we spread our sails
to the breeze and began rushing through the
water at a rapid rate. A Bittern pumped
over near the outlet as we passed and a
Savanna Sparrow was singing in a bit of
raised but yet moist meadow land.
[margin]Start for Concord[/margin].
  In the Wayland meadow between the
bridges we heard a Carolina Rail and saw
a good many Eave Swallows. Orioles, Least
Flycatchers and a Warbling Vireo or two were
singing in the trees along the causeway.
[margin]Carolina Rail[/margin]
Nothing of any particular interest was noted
during the passage of the great Sudbury
marshes nor indeed until we had passed
through Fairhaven and landed for lunch,
at 2 P.M., on Martha's Point. While here
we heard a Wood Pewee and I found a
Bluebird's nest with young in a Woodpecker's
hole in the dead lib if a poplar just
inside the edge of a strip of woods, an
unusual situation if I remember rightly.
[margin]Wood Pewee
Bluebird's nest[/margin]
  At one time a pair of Red-shouldered
Hawks appeared circling over Fairhaven and