Concord, Mass.
1910
April 2 [April 2, 1910]   
  Clear and warm with light, variable winds chiefly
from N.W. [Northwest] and N.E. [Northeast]
  Arrivals Kingfisher: one, seen first at 7 A.M. and many
times later in day, flying past cabin.
  Bittern: one, seen first at 8 A.M. flying low over
meadows opposite Ball's Hill. Afterwards saw three or
four times in same locality. It uttered a guttural
oc-oc-oc but did not pump.
  Wilson's Snipe: As twilight was falling this evening
a Snipe began drumming over the meadows directly
opposite the cabin at Ball's Hill, keeping it up for nearly
half-an-hour. During this period I heard several others
uttering the scaipe note as they rose from the meadow
and flew almost over it, unseen in the gathering gloom.
As nearly as I could tell by their cries there were in
all at least five or six different birds. The music
of the drummer was unusually strong & loud I thought.
It is among the weirdest of all bird sounds.
Arrivals
Snipe
  About 10 A.M. we heard the wild clamor of Canada Geese
coming from the far distance towards the south west. A minute
or two later we saw the birds advancing directly towards us
over Great Meadows. There were 2 flocks, one following in the 
wake of the other, perhaps 300 yards behind it. I counted
85 birds in the first flock & 28 in the second. Rarely if ever
have I seen Geese flying so very high. When directly over us
they looked no larger than Robins seen near at hand. Up to
this time they had been heading north-east but before
reaching Davis Hill they turned sharply to the right and
made off out of sight due eastward. Just before this change
Canada Geese