Cambridge, Mass.
1911.
Dec. 10
(No 5)
[December 10, 1911]

Golden eyes

  Keeping sometimes with the Scaups but oftener apart
by themselves were two Golden-eyes in [female] plumage.
They, too, dove occasionally. I thought I saw a
bunch of five or six Drakes of this species alight further
out when I first reached the pond but the two
were all that we could find afterwards.

Impressive uprising of alarmed waterfowl

  The great concourse of birds near the middle of the
pond was disturbed in an interesting manner early in
the forenoon by a man by a man who began beating
on the rail fence at the water's edge with his cane.
Almost the first blows he gave caused some of the Gulls
nearest him to take flight. They were quickly followed
by others and the alarm soon became general until
practically every bird was on wing even the Canada
Goose and the Mergansers leaving the water with
the rest. It was then a truly impressive sight such