Cambridge, Mass.
1911.
Dec. 10
(No 3)
[December 10, 1911]

Ducks in Fresh Pond
Black Ducks
Gooseanders

  About the outskirts of the great bed of Gulls (but
seldom mingling with them) and elsewhere in the pond
were Ducks of several kind, mostly Black Ducks
which, in clustering flocks, were sleeping with their
heads buried in their feathers, looking like so many
blocks of wood. I counted just 100 of them
but there were doubtless at least 15 or 20 more
than that number which I failed to notice.
Most of them kept well out in the pond as did
also two flocks of Gooseanders containing respectively
14 and 16 birds of which about one half were
drakes in full nuptial plumage.
  There was a solitary Canada Goose in
one of the flocks of Black Ducks and also, for
a time, a drake Bald Pate which later
appeared in "Hotel Nook".