Cambridge, Mass.
1909
Nov. 7 [November 7, 1909]
  Clear calm & (for the season) very soft & warm.
  Henry W. Henshaw and I visited Fresh Pond and
the neighboring swamps this morning, leaving our house
about 10.30 and getting back at 1. In the Huron Avenue
car we met Walter Dean and Mrs. Mac Millan who
were bound on the same errand as ourselves. We
went together directly to Hemlock Point whence we
could look out and down over the entire pond. Its
surface shone, like a burnished mirror, in the clear
light of the low November sun and was everywhere
unruffled save by the rings of rising fish and by the
occasional slight movement made by the four water-fowl
that floated near its center. Three of these birds were
Black Ducks. The fourth puzzled us for awhile for
it was asleep, with its head buried among the scapular
feathers, and we could not make out much more than
Old Squaw