Concord, Mass.
1912.
Oct. 17
(No 2)
[October 17, 1912]

Canada Geese in river at Ball's hill & Fairhaven Bay

decided to try drifting down on the birds before the 
wind in a cedar canoe. They did not seem to notice me when
I first pushed out in it but I had gone only a few rods
when they stretched up their necks and drew off from shore.
A moment later they all rose, led by a Gander of unusual
size, and mounting straight upward eight or ten feet like so
many Black Ducks. Going first down wind over the river for
about 100 yds. [yards] they turned in over the marsh and went off
low down to the southward, honking loudly. Only a few
minutes later - as I learned afterwards - they alighted in 
Fairhaven Bay after having been shot at twice on wing by a girl
in a canoe. They remained about the bay during the remainder 
of the afternoon. In the evening twilight Samuel Hoar of
Concord got within easy range of them in his canoe
and shot one, "a very large & heavy bird," I have been told.