Back Bay Basin,
Boston, Mass.
1909
March 1
9.40
to
9.45 A.M.
  Cloudless and cool with rather fresh N.W. wind.
Whistler courtship
  Paid a second visit to the Back Bay Basin this
morning in hopes of learning something new of
Whistler courtship. The birds were all about the
bridge this time, off the mouth of Stony Brook,
most of them well out from shore and many tossing
about among the white-capped waves in mid channel.
There were about the same number as on February
27th and I think they were essentially the
very same lot for the proportion of males to
females and of fully adult drakes to immature
ones had undergone no appreciable change. Moreover
I saw among them the typical female islandica
and the aberrant female americana with yellow barred
bill. There was evidently little or nothing "doing"
in the way of active courtship. I heard the paaap