Concord, Mass.
1910
June 22
[June 22, 1910]

The "Kicker" reappears in Great Meadows.

  For the past three or four weeks I have
been living at the Farm and have visited Ball's
Hill only during the brighter hours of the day.
Happening to linger there this evening beyond my usual
time of departure I was not less pleased than
surprised, on stepping out of the cabin, to hear
the familiar, if half-forgotten, notes of a "Kicker"
coming distinctly from the marsh on the opposite
side of the river. This was about six o'clock. I
stood listening to the call or song for some twenty
minutes. It was uttered at short, regular intervals during
the whole of this period. I left the bird still
singing when I started for the farm. Twice or thrice
I heard a second bird not far from the first.
Both gave the normal ki-ki-ki-, ki-queer notes.
The evening was calm & warm. Mr. Dexter went down
to the cabin & went on the river at 9 P.M. but failed to hear the Kicker.