Cambridge, Mass
1900
May 13
  Took the 8.13 am train to Cambridge. C. met
me at the station and we drove through Mt. Auburn
where I heard Parula Warblers and a Black-throated
Blue singing in the oaks and saw a Night Heron,
a Green Heron & a Kingfisher at the long pond.
There was also a Phoebe singing at the bridge
over this pond.
Mt Auburn
Night Heron,
Green " Heron
Kingfisher &
Phoebee at
the artificial
pond.
  Near it I was surprised to see a Carolina Bat
flying about over the tops of the trees in the
bright sunlight (it was now 11 A.M.), not merely
wandering about as Bats will occasionally do
by day when disturbed but evidently hunting
for insects. After a flight of about five minutes
it pitched suddenly down and alighted against
the trunk of a larger white oak where it hung
head downward about 8 ft. above the ground.
Its reddish body exactly resembled a shallow
cavity lined with rotten wood while it's dark
folded wings supplied the effect of the harder, blackened
wood which so often surrounds such a cavity.
Indeed it was hard to believe that we were not
looking at a natural rounded crevice such as 
that just described. On approaching the creature
closely I saw that it had caught a small,
grayish moth which it was munching in
a leisurely manner. We left it clinging to
the rough bark where it was as safe from
discovery as if hidden within the inner
recesses of a cavern.
Carolina 
Bat flying
about in
bright sun-
light & catching
insects.
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