Concord, Mass.
1910.
April 7 [April 7, 1910]
(No 2)
  A Kingfisher is haunting the river by day, flying back
& forth past the cabin at all hours, ranging as far as
Davis Hill in one direction and at least towards Dakin's Hill
in the other. He regularly goes to roost about sunset in the
dense young pines on the south side of Ball's Hill midway
between the cabin & birch gate and some thirty yards back
from the river. I have started him from these trees no 
less than three evenings this week. He takes wing in silence
and after flying back over the river doubles back and alights
in some taller pines near the crest of the hill where he
usually utters his rattle a number of times as I
pass on along the road that skirts the base of the hill.
It is odd to hear his familiar cry issuing thus from
thick woods. The smaller pines where I first start him
have been the favorite roosting place of Kingfishers at all
seasons for years past but only one bird (perhaps always the
same individual) is to be found there at any one time.
Kingfisher roosting in dense pines on hill.