Concord, Massechusetts.
Resume of Field Observations
1894
Oct. 11 to
Nov. 21 
(No 18) 
thicket beneath. I had a fine view of it - it was
within thirty yards or less - and made it out to
be a young male. Presently it saw me and turning
flew off towards the southwest over Great Meadow.
I now began looking for the Yellow-leg but it was
not until I put the little cocking spaniel "Hadji" into
the bushes that I suceeded in flushing it. It then
flew only a few rods and alighting in the water among
some lily pads swam slowly ashore just above the landing.
It was evidently too much frightened to return to the
marshes across the river (where the falcon must have originally
found it) for it spent the remainder of the afternoon on 
the bushy shore a little to the west of the cabin.
  Herbert Holden reported seeing a Coot (Fulica) in the river
near the cabin on October 21st. I did not meet with 
any of these birds this autumn.
  On Nov. 23rd Bensen and Pat. saw about a dozen Canada
Geese flying low towards the south.
  Late in October and early in November Mr. Hebe Jones and
his son made a number of visits to the pond hole in
the meadows just below Davis's Hill and on nearly
every occasion they found Black Ducks there. They killed
six or eight in all and [delete]two heard[/delete] two or three others
were shot at about the same time in Goose Pond but
although I was constantly on the river I did [not] see a high
bird of this species until November 14 when I found a
flock of four in the little bayou at the head of Beaver