Concord, Mass.
1893  
July  21                                                         
  A very warm day, clear with strong S.W. wind                  
[margin]Goose Pond[/margin]
  To Goose Pond this morning with M. M. H. driving
to Califf's and sending the horse back. As we walked
in along the ridge [delete]path[/delete] a Gray Squirrel bounded along the path
ahead of us for several rods before taking to a tree.
Red-eyed Vireos were singing in several directions and
near the pond [?] number of Blue Jays screaming. As
we were skirting the shore I picked up the the feather
of a Red-shouldered Hawk and showed it to my
companion. A few rods further on we started the Hawk
himself from a tree overhanging the water. Literally
no other birds were seen or heard in those wods, but
in some pines near the shore of Walden Pond [delete]we heard[/delete]
a Wood Pewee was wailing and a Black-throated Green Warbler [delete]both[delete]
singing. Thus the total number of species seen and heard
during the forenoon's walk (others were observed while we
were driving to & from the woods) was just five!
Where were the Oven Birds and Tanagers?
  Goose Pond was very pretty this morning. I have not
visted it before this year [delete]and[/delete] nor indeed ever before in
spring or summer so I was much interested in the slight
investigation of its aquatic vegetation  etc. which I was able
to make as we walked around its shores. The surface of
the water over large areas was densely crowded with the leaves
and blossoms of the Floating Heart the white flowers giving the
dark green "pads" the appearance of being dusted over with snow
or hoar frost.  These were also a few clusters of Cow Lily pads
but practically the Lymnanthemum had possession of the entire
pond. I have never seen it growing elsewhere in anything