1893
May 19
(No 6)
East Lexington, Mass.
  on several occasions, both last year & this but he
was not pumping to-day. A "Kicker" (Porzana jamaicensis?)
which crowed regularly for several evenings in 1890 near
the outlet or rather inlet of the brook completes the
list of marsh & water birds known to breed here but
in addition Wood & Black Ducks and Herons of
several species visit the pond in considerable numbers
in autumn & early spring.
[margin]Birds of
Upper Reservoir
pond[/margin]
  Red-winged Blackbirds nest all over the pond
among the button bushes in remarkable numbers and
there are plenty of Swamp and Song Sparrows and
Maryland Yellow-throats, especially about the shores
and up along the brook.
   Thus it will be seen that with the exception of
the Greebes the fauna of this pond corresponds closely
with that of the Fresh Pond swamps. The latter, however,
posses three breeding species not found here viz.
Wood Ducks and the two species of Marsh Wrens.
  This reservoir pond is said to contain great
numbers of fish among which are pickerel, pouts,
perch, bream, white perch and alewives. The alewives
run up from the seas to spawn as do also, probably,
the white perch. Eels of enormous size inhabit the
pond. Both eels and fish perished by tens of 
thousands last winter and were blown up on shore
in wind rows where the ice went out in the spring
attracting hordes of Crows. It is supposed that
this mortality was caused by the pond freezing 
to the bottom over its shallower portions.