1902.
Nov. 30
Cambridge, Mass.
  Sunny but hazy with light west wind. Ther. 40 degrees at sunrise.
  Walter Dean visited Fresh Pond about 8.30 this morning.
He found an immense body of Gulls floating on the water.
Soon after his arrival they rose and separated into three flocks
of about equal size two of these going off towards the ocean.
A rough count of one flock gave 800 birds from which he
assumes that there must have been upwards of 2400 in all.
This is the largest number ever reported here.
  During the half hour or so which Walter spent at the
Pond a Loon was in sight most of the time. It was
exceedingly active swimming rapidly for long distances, occasionally
with its bill & eyes immersed after the manner of its kind,
frequently diving and every now & then raising its body out
of the water & flapping its wings. It visited Cambridge Nook
and on one occasion passed close to the end of Hemlock Point
where Walter was standing. Late in the afternoon he saw it 
again in Boat House Nook.
A Loon in Fresh Pond
  I reached the Pond about 9 o'clock just after Walter had
left it. At this time there were upwards of 800 Gulls and
about 60 Black Ducks floating on the water off Hemlock Point.
Among the Black Ducks were the two adult male Red-heads
which have been frequenting the Pond for the past month
or more. I saw nothing of the Loon but soon after
my arrival discovered a bird which Walter had missed
and which has never before been noted in any of the
ponds of the Cambridge Region. This was a Brunnich's
Murre. It was directly opposite the end of Hemlock Point
to the westward or towards the middle of the Pond and
about 200 yards from shore apart from all the Ducks but
not far from the inner edge of the bed of Gulls. During
Red-head Ducks
Brunnich's Murre in Fresh Pond 
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