Concord, Mass.
1910.
April 6 [April 6, 1910]
(No 3)
quality which I find rather pleasing because of its
plaintiveness. Sometimes they remind me of two shouting
notes of a Flicker heard in the distance, oftener of
the slow, hesitating soliloquy of a Carolina Rail
in late autumn. The birds heard last evening were at
first in the direction of Mc. Grath's [McGrath's] but he afterwards
changed his position twice and finally called several
times just across the river near my stone boat house.
Although I have as yet no position close to the
author of these sounds I am nearly convinced
that they are made by the Ring-necked Pheasants
which are now numerous in the fields & meadows
on the West Bedford shore. I picked up one of
the long tail feathers of a cock Pheasant on my
own land yesterday but as it was among the cranberries
& trash just at high water mark it probably floated there
Pheasants calling.