Cambridge, Mass.
1911.
Dec. 10
(No 6)
[December 10, 1911]

Clouds of disturbed water fowl circling over Fresh Pond

as I have never before witnessed anywhere in the
neighborhood of Cambridge. The two thousand or more
Gulls wheeling and soaring one hundred feet or more in
air looked like a vast cloud of gigantic, swirling
snow-flakes. Above the Black Ducks in hollow-
shaped formations were cutting dark lines across the
pale blue sky. Below were Goosanders and a few
odd Black Ducks skimming to and fro close over
the water. The commotion lasted in all perhaps
ten minutes at the close of which nearly all the birds 
settled again nearer than before to the centre of the
pond and quiet was restored.
  Besides the water fowl we saw a Sparrow Hawk
flying over Hemlock Point, a Tree Sparrow in some
bushes near the shore and scattered Crows in various places.
Kinglets (R. satrapa [Regulus satrapa]), Chickadees & a Flicker were heard.