Concord, Mass.
1910.
June 25
(No. 2)
[June 25, 1910]

More "Kickers"

  About 9 o'clock, as we were drifting before the light
wind down the middle of the broad reach opposite
the cabins, a Kicker began calling on the Bedford
shore near the entrance to our boat canal. We
paddled over there at once and got very near him,
within thirty yards, I thought. For a time he
called only at long and irregular intervals and
gave only the queer note sometimes doubling it
the second syllable having a falling inflection
queer-queerah. His voice sounded very loud
and squealing at this close range. After a while he
was answered by one after another bird further
off towards the middle of Great Meadows until
at least four and we thought five different
Kickers were singing at once, more or less vociferously.
Some gave only the squealing cry which was frequently