Hobbs Brook Reservoir, Waltham.
1909.
Nov.12 [November 12, 1909]
  Clear, calm, very warm. 
  Mr. McMillan took Walter Deane & me to
Hobbs Brook Reservoir this afternoon in his automobile.
C. J. Maynard & his bird classes have been seeing
Evening Grosbeaks in numbers there of late. We had
hoped to meet with some of those birds but failed to do
so. Our trip was not unproductive of interest, however,
besides being very delightful in the warm, still,
Indian summer weather. About half way up the 
reservoir we saw a large flock of Snow Buntings
(fully 100), at first wheeling over the water, finally
running about at the margin on the the pebbly
shores of a little point. Near the head of the
lower basin were thirteen Ducks which we took
for Lesser Scaups. They were diving for food and
once they took wing & flew about over the entire
Snow Buntings
Scaup Ducks.