Wareham, Mass.
1900.
June 12-14
(No 4)
  The 14th was cloudy with drizzling rain at intervals 
and one really heavy shower just before noon.
  We took a new route to-day driving through
Wareham & to the westward into a region very generally
and in places heavily wooded with white pines.
Where the destructive forest fires had not raged the woods
were flourishing & attractive but more like those
found about Concord than in the country which we
have traversed the past two days. The birds which
they sheltered were much the same, however & the
only species noted which we had not seen before on 
our drives were the Locust Flycatchers & Osprey & Tanager.
Least F.
Tanager.
Fish Hawk.
  We lunched on the banks of a trout brook with
a hillside covered with tall white pines behind us. A
little lower down the brook was a meadow deeply carpeted 
with Sphagnum where Arethusas & some remarkably fine
Ladies Slippers were in full bloom and purple fringed
orchids thrusting up their numerous leaves.
  The afternoon was so dark & threatening that
we returned to the house earlier than we had 
intended.
  I have said comparatively little about the birds
met with during these drives because I intend
noting them in systematic order in the pages
to follow the above general narration of my
visit.
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