Concord, Mass.
1910.
June 25
[June 25, 1910]

  Clear and rather cool with light easterly winds
changing to south-west at sunset.

Evening on the river

  Walter Faxon and Dr. Tyler came up this
afternoon in the hope of hearing the Kicker. After
a walk in the woods and supper in the old log
cabin we went out on the river in the flat boat
at 7.30. The evening seemed favorable for our
purpose, although a trifle too cool, but for more
than an hour we rowed up and down, going as
far as the head of Beaver Dam Lagoon, without
hearing anything more interesting than four or five
Bull Frogs, a number of Green Frogs, a few
Fowler's Toads, a Marsh Wren (at the rapids) and
a Whippoorwill. The last named bird was, no
doubt, the one that has sung opposite the cabins
for the past four or five years. He was there in May
but not since then. We heard him to-night on the
south side of Great Meadow near Three Oak Island.