Concord, Mass.
1911
March 20
 (No 7)
[March 20, 1911]

Whistlers and Gooseanders

  We spent most of the day at Ball's Hill.
While there I saw a pair of Whistlers flying
down river past the cabin and a pair of 
Gooseanders in the water. The latter birds rose
from the surface of the water about 100 yards 
above the cabin as I came in sight about
noon & flew off up river. An hour later I 
saw them again, swimming close to shore just
above Bensen's Knoll. The drake was a fine
one, in full plumage. On the second occasion 
they took flight half -a-minute after I caught sight
of them although I was 200 yards away and
almost perfectly screened by interweaving tree trunks
& branches.

Rusty Blackbirds

  Heard Rusty Blackbirds jingling in late P.M.
  Fourteen Crows stalking about on ice across river.