1893
June 18
 (No 3) 
Say brook Ferry, Conn.

Keeping on beyond the fields where the Yellow - wings are
so numerous we crossed a hilly pasture dotted with cedars
and clusters of bay berry bushes where Field sparrows were
singing and Carolina Doves flying about and finally came
to a rocky point studded with fine old past? oaks
and hickories. On one side the marshes extended to the
river, on the other broad creek wound its sinuous
course through beds of cat-tail flags (Typha angustifolia )
more extensive and ranker and dense growth than
any that we have seen elsewhere. Sitting down under
a larger black bird on the bank overlooking the creek
we watched and listened for over an hour. The flags
were alive with Marsh Wrens and thee were many
Red - wings also.  Twice we heard the pig - note of Rallus
Viginiannus and one cry something like a Blackbirds'
but yet different. We saw one Least Bittern a fine
male that came flying in over the creek and
alighted near us in the cat - tails. A Parula Warbler
was singing near us in some cedars thickly hung with
[?].  We looked for his nest but found only a
last years one. A Wood Perver among the big
oaks wailed at intervals. In the distance Quail
were whistling.
The walk homeward across the fields was delightful
with the Boy-wings & Yellow - wings singing. The Killdeer
were in the little marsh again to - day.