1893
June 24
 (No 2) 
 Bolton Notch, Conn.

We lunched by the roadside near the Notch sitting on a
flat topped wall under a big sugar maple. A Chat was
singing in a large thicket on the neighboring hill - side [?]
we also heard Chest - sided Warblers, a Redstart, a Phoebe and
Wood Parr?. Least Flycathers inhabited the neighboring
orchards and Robins,Baltimore Orioles, Chirpping Sparrows, Cidar Birds
and Swallows were flying to & far across a field. It was a
pretty spot but there appeared to be only the commonest
birds in the neighborhood.


After lunch we went through the Notch and half around
a small pond where there was a considerable area of cat tails
in which several pairs of Red - wings were breeding and to &
from which Green Herons came and went at short intervals
Lying down in the shrub of [?] pitch pine we watched the
pond for an hour or more. A pair of White - bellied Swallows
had a nest in a dead tree which stood in the water well
out from shore and two Night Herons in ???? (brown)
plumage came to another dead tree on the bank and
sat among the branches in the sun, [?].

Later in the afternoon we followed the road still further
out to the southward past a large grove of pitch pines in
which a Pine Warbler, the first we had found in Conn, was
singing freely, across a grassy plateau when we heard a
Bay - wing to pine woods of large white pinus in which
there was nothing of interest.  There we turned back &
Faxon started for a walk to Andover which I waited for the
train filling the interim partially by a stroll up a
beautiful wood path behind the station. A dove was cooing
and a Wood thrush singing. Found a small Chestnut oak.