Cambridge, Mass.
1911.
Dec. 10
[December 10, 1911]

  Sunny but hazy, calm, warm (53 [degrees] at noon). An
Indian summer day.

Birds in Fresh Pond
Herring Gulls.

  Spent most of the forenoon (10.30 - 12.30) at
Fresh Pond. It has been frequented by an exceptional
number and variety of water fowl for a month
past and it was swarming with them to-day.
We saw them to unusual advantage in the
bright sunlight on water wholly unruffled by
wind but more or less disturbed by their movements.
The Gulls were by far the most numerous. I have
never before seen anything like so many in Fresh
Pond at any one time. Floating only a yard
or two apart they covered some fifteen or twenty
acres of water near the center of the pond, presenting
a beautiful appearance and looking, at a distance,
like so many lumps of snow ice. Mr. Barrett