Concord, Mass.
1910.
June 29
[June 29, 1910]

Still another "Kicker"

  Brilliantly clear with fresh, cool N.W. [northwest] wind which died
away before sunset.
  As H. A. Purdie and I were sailing past Birch Island
late this afternoon a "Kicker" sang a dozen times or more
in the meadow grass a little back from the river and
about 100 yards to the north of the island (ie down river
from it). He used the normal song ki - ki - ki, ki - queer
It struck me for the first time, as I was listening to
him on this occasion, that the terminal note is very
like in general quality that of the closing ree of the
Red-winged Blackbird. It was about six o'clock when
we heard him and the river and meadows were still
flooded in bright sunshine. No Kickers were heard opposite
Ball's Hill although we spent most of the day there
and did not start on our return to the Farm
until nearly 7 P.M.