1892
June 18
(No.2)
Concord, Massachusetts.
[margin]Fairhaven Bay[/margin]
Mass.
Concord.- 6 P.M. Sailing in Fairhaven Bay. Light E. wind
cloudy sky with form of clear blue sky in west. Robins,
Vireos, Song Sparrows, Yellow Warblers, Redwings, a Wood P[?][?][?],
Oven bird, and Swamp Sparrows singing. A Towhee in full
song as we passed the Cliffs half an hour earlier. No Tanagers
singing but one is not apt to hear them at this
hour under these conditions.
  As twilight fell two Whippoorwills began singing, both
on the north side of the bay, one near opposite
Martha's Point where we had landed and were
preparing to spend the night. As we were eating
supper one of these birds crossed the river to our side
and began singing within a few rods of us. As
nearly as I could make out it was perched on the
extreme end of the rocky ledge but when I rose
to look it cut its song short with the second
syllable and a moment later began singing again
several hundred yards off.
[margin]Whippoorwills.[/margin]
  After dark a grand chorus of Bull and Green
Frogs which lasted throughout the night. The
Bull Frogs here seemed to both of us to have
harsher, more raucous voices than those at Ball's
Hill.
[margin]Batrachians[/margin]
  At frequent intervals during the night I heard
Black-billed Cuckoos and once, as I thought,
a Yellow-bill but of the latter I could not
make sure.
[margin]Black bill Cuckoos
at night.[/margin]