Cambridge, Mass.
1909
March 17
(No 2)
same distance, making out plainly most of the
characteristics of color and marking. His crown looked
almost snow white when he was in the water &
the moment I saw it I knew the bird was
a Wigeon. He is probably the same Baldpate
drake that Mr. H. W. Wright and others have
seen at intervals through the past winter in
Jamaica Pond, Chestnut Hill Reservoir & other
(?) of water (including Back Bay Basin) near
Boston & Cambridge (See records of Nutall Club).
He kept always with Black Ducks, both when
swimming & flying, today.
Mareca americana
  At Fresh Pond I heard this morning a Meadow
Lark singing, a Flicker shouting and several
Redwings uttering the quark-er-ee in chorus.
No Song Sparrows heard to-day but one song yesterday.