Concord, Mass.
1910.
June 25
(No 6)
[June 25, 1910]

A Kicker heard in front of the cabins on the Ball's Hill shore

singing (ki - ki - ki - queah) apparently within
fifteen or twenty yards by us and unmistakeably
on the Ball's Hill side of the river somewhere in
the fringe of bushes beneath the big maples that
grow along the edge of water just to the eastward
of the entrance to the boat pit. I heard him
a dozen times or more before I left the place
and Harry tells me he kept it up for an hour
or more later into the night. Never before have
I heard one with such distinction or so
apparently near at hand. Just outside the
bushes is a broad belt of pickerel weed growing
in water now two or three feet deep. I often
see Carolina Rails along this shore in early
autumn, sometimes half wading, half swimming through
the pickerel weed.