Cambridge, Mass.
1910.
Dec 7
[December 7, 1910]

Night Herons in Norton's Woods.

  A week or more ago I heard from Roland Thaxter
that Night Herons have been frequenting Norton's woods
of late. He has just given me (by telephone, this evening)
the following interesting information regarding them.
They were first noticed in the summer of 1909 when
only one or two were seen. Several appeared early in
the following season (that of 1910), remaining well into
the autumn when Mr. Thaxter heard them quawking
in the evening twilight for a week or more, after his
return to his house in Irving Street the last of September.
The neighbors told him that they had been about all
summer. Mrs. D. Marks, who seems to have [been] especially
interested in them, says that there were at least five
birds and that they were accustomed to spend the
day roosting in the cluster of tall pines whence they
flew off at night to distant feeding grounds. She