Cambridge, Mass.
1910.
Dec. 7
(No 2)
[December 7, 1910]

thinks they must have bred in the trees for near
them, late in the season, she found a young bird
perched on a fence. Apparently it had not been long
out of the nest for when she approached and flushed 
it it flew off very feebly after first trying in vain
to rise into the pines.
  In the earlier days of my acquaintance with
Norton's Woods, when they were of considerable extent, essentially
primitive and comparatively little disturbed, they were
never visited by Night Herons at any season as far
as I could learn. That their few remaining trees
should now for the first time attract and harbor
those birds is not a little surprising. It would be
still more extraordinary if as Mrs. Marks believes,
but I seriously doubt, a brood of young Herons
were really hatched and reared there last summer.