1902
May 15
(No 4)
every now & then the "scatter call" of a Quail.
Altogether the walk was a delightful as well as
memorable one.
  On my way back I stopped at Edwin Lawrence's
place I found its proprietor smoking a cigar in the
garden just behind the house. Twilight was falling as
I stood talking with him. A Thrasher was singing
gloriously in the pasture near at hand. Suddenly
I heard the light, silvery whistle of wings and
looking up saw two Wood Ducks flying at no
great height directly overhead. Although the light was
dim I distinctly made out their white bellies
& characteristic shape & manner of flight. They
came from the westward (directly over an extensive
tract of upland woods) and disappeared in the
direction of Birch Island. I should have been
scarce more surprised had a pair of Canada Geese
flown over me.
  It was nearly dark when I reached the
farm house. Two Whippoorwillls were singing, one
to the westward, the other just below the orchard
to the south-east & somewhere near Pulpit Rock.
  Hylas were peeping in fair numbers this
evening.
  When at Lawrence's I heard a Solitary Sandpiper
calling high overhead & earlier in the day a Winter
Yellow-legs high over Pulpit Rock woods.
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