Naushon Island, Mass.
1901. 
May 26 
(No. 3)
of woods and mossy or grassy openings and crossing several
bridges which connect what are really several small
adjacent islands separated by narrow channels through
which the tide ran swiftly and over which numerous
Terns and several Kingfishers were poising or flying
to and fro. On a rock well out in the Sound
a solitary jet-black Cormorant sat perched erect and
motionless among a number of Herring Gulls.
  In the woods Wilson's Thrushes, Towhees, and Usnea
Warblers swarmed and Black & White Creepers, Redstarts, &
Red eyed vireos were everywhere common.
  On our way back we came upon a party of five
Deer in a field of rich grass bordered by an orchard
With a stone wall and the woods beyond. They stood
close together in a picturesque group and after gazing
at us for a moment dashed off through the apple trees
and over the wall which they took in rapid
succession at the same spot and in the most
graceful and effortless manner.
  On the edge of some old oak woods near the farm
house we saw upwards of twenty domestic turkeys
which had gone to roost in the upper branches of
the trees fully fifty feet above the ground.
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