Wareham, Mass.
1900.
June 12-14.
  I went to Wareham on the afternoon of the
11th. to spend a few days with my friend Outram Bangs.
He met me at the station & we drove directly to his
country house. On the way over we saw three Ring-necked
Pheasants, a solitary cock and a mated pair, all in
open grassy fields by the roadside. I flushed the single
cock & Bangs the pair. They allowed us to get within
a few yards squatting in the grass and rising strongly. One
bird ran a few feet before flushing. All then took long 
flights.
Ring neck
Pheasants
  On reaching the house I was shown a Robin's nest
with seven eggs built in the top of a brush heap in the
barn yard & a fine colony of Barn Swallows nesting
in the open cellar under the barn. Three Whippoorwills
were singing at one time in the early morning & at
least one of them sang most of the night.
Robin's nest
with 7 eggs
in brush heap.
Whippoorwills
  The 12th. was a beautiful day, cloudless with a cool
fresh breeze. We started off early and drove to the
reservoir which I visited in 1894. On the way we
passed a small, muddy pond where six Bald eagles were
in sight at once, four soaring over the open water, two
sitting perched on dead trees on the shore. I was also
shown a curious wooden tower under the eaves of which
a Wood Duck nested a few years ago & which I
photographed.
Bald
Eagles.
Wood Duck's
nest in 
wooden tower
  At the Reservoir I exposed several plates. The place
has changed little since my former visit but many
of the stubs have fallen. Enough remain, however, to
furnish nesting places for a large colony of Tree Swallows,
as well as several pairs of Flickers & Bluebirds.
In the pitch pine grove on the west side of this
Tree Swallows
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