Concord, Mass.
1906.
July 8
  Cloudy most of forenoon. Afternoon sunny. Rather cool with S.E. wind.
Night cloudy, calm & rather warm. 
    I was in the woods nearly all day, at Ball's Hill
in the forenoon, between there and the farm in the afternoon.
Saw and heard a surprising number of small birds. They were
generally distributed and nowhere in flocks. Most of them
were singing freely and very few were accompanied by young.
I was surprised to hear so much good singing so late in the
season. A Grosbeak sang through the entire forenoon in the
woods across the river from the cabin and a Dove was cooing there
at intervals. About 8 A.M. a Bobolink gave the full song with
full vigor once. Robins, Red-eyes, Oven birds, Song Sparrows,
Pine Warblers, Black-throated Green Warblers & Swamp Sparrows were
singing all day long. At evening there was a fine concert of Veeries
in Ball's Hill & Davis Swamps. I have not heard these birds
sing as freely before this year. Through May & early June they
were almost wholly silent everywhere and at all hours. A Quail
whistled all the forenoon on the West Bedford side of the river
and about eight o'clock this evening a Whippoorwill sang there
for several minutes. Later in the night I awoke to hear him
very near the cabin on Ball' Hill. I heard no Bitterns but
Forbush tells me that they have been pumping freely up to within
the past two or three days. 
  About ten o'clock to night I heard coming from the semi-
flooded marsh across the river a song or cry not unlike the "Kicker's"
yet different in several respects. I noted it thus: Kic-kic-qyeer-
quaw (or keer-qyar-r-r). Sometimes the kic-kic notes were omitted.
The tone of most of the notes was closely similar to that of the Kicker's but
the quaw (or quar-r-r) was different & very harsh & strident. This call
was given only at rather long & irregular intervals varying from one to three
minutes. The creature called in all not more than eight or ten times.