Concord, Mass.
1911.
Sept. 22
[September 22, 1911]

Flight note of Flicker.

  Flickers when on wing and about to alight
in a tree or just after taking flight from it occasionally
utter a peculiar low rolling call very unlike any
of their other notes. Hearing this near at hand in
the berry pasture this evening when the air was
still I was struck, for the first time I believe,
by its resemblance to the cough of a horse. It
seemed indeed to have very nearly the same
quality and expression although it was, of course,
very much feebler and fainter. The bird was
within a few yards of me when making it.

Deer.

  No one hereabouts has seen a Deer for a month
or more nor have any tracks been seen of late
until to-day when I found those of a medium sized
doe on Ball's Hill and those of a small fawn
in the wood road leading from Birch Field to Bensen's