1893
June 23 
(No 2)
Andover, Connecticut.
  with large sugar maples, oaks, chestnuts, beeches, basswoods,
butternuts and hickories with a sprinkling of hemlocks and
everywhere an undergrowth of Kalmia covering the hillside with
dense, almost impenetrable thickets showy with their beautiful
white &[and] rose tinted masses of blossoms. It seemed just the place
for Hooded Warblers but we saw only Oven Birds, Black &[and] White
Creepers, a pair of Chestnut Sided Warblers, Red-eyed Vireos
&[and] a Wood Thrush. A Robin flew from a nest built only
waist high in a laurel containing three eggs.
As we advanced the scenery became wilder &[and] more
picturesque. The brook dashed over a ledge in a succession
of low falls &[and] the noise of the falling water drowned all
other sounds but presently, just below a bridge where a
road crossed, we heard above the roar of the water the
sharp chirp of a L[ouisian]a Water Thrush. The bird proved to
be an old female in faded, draggled plumage. When we [?]
she came close about us skipping from stone to stone &[and]
fluttering slowly over the pools trailing [delete]dangling]/delete] her hanging feet in the
water. She evidently had young but we did not find them.
Just above the bridge we saw a Red-tailed Hawk soaring
over a pasture. 
[margin]Water Thrush
with young[/margin]
  Following the road a little way we turned to the left
across a pasture and crossed through woods, pastures &[and]
birch openings to the valley road. Oaks &[and] chestnuts inferior
to those at Saybrook but much more vigorous & [and] beautiful
than any we have at home were sprinkled abundantly 
throughout these pastures &[and] Kalmia thickets in
the height of their bloom were spattered about everywhere.
We flushed a Woodcock in some birches on high, dry ground
and heard several Grosbeaks &[and] Tanagers singing. A Prairie
Warbling singing in a pasture. Back to dinner at noon.