1893
March 31
(No 4)
Concord, Mass.
  Early in the afternoon I heard several shots
fired on the river below the hill and shortly afterwards
Henry Lawrence appeared in his old flat-bottomed
boat with his shepard dog sitting in the prow.
He had two musk rats and told of shooting
at a Wood Duck which rose from the brush near
Davis's Hill and which he claimed to have wounded
severely. After he had passed on up river I put my
canoe in the water and paddled to Davis's Hill.
Just as I was approaching the landing a beautiful
male Wood Duck swam out of the bushes and 
seeing me rose and flew off down river uttering
the pee-ee-ee call repeatedly. It evidently was
not in the least injured although it must 
have been the bird at which Lawrence had fired
less than an hour before. He told me afterwards
that he saw three more Wood Ducks flying
together near Holden's meadow. 
[margin]Wood Ducks[/margin]
  I saw no Gooseanders although I went well
below Davis's Hill and scanned the meadows
towards Carlisle Bridge with a powerful glass.
Lawrence had seen none, either, but he said
that his brother Edward killed one last
week. I fear that the flight has passed.
[margin]Gooseanders[/margin]
  There was a single Herring Gull, a fine
old bird, scaling about over the water, both
above and below Ball's Hill, most of the
afternoon.
[margin]Herring
Gull[/margin]