105

Concord, Mass.
1916.
Aug. 30
to
Nov. 4

Great Blue Herons
Black Ducks
Night [Night Heron] & Green Herons.
Kingfishers
Wood Ducks.

watching our approach or perhaps ignore it seemingly
while facing in other directions and bending their heads
downward as if looking for fishy prey. Rowing slowly
in midstream we repeatedly got within long shot-gun
range of them and almost equally near eight Black Ducks
that rose on wing together from the shallow expansion of
the river known as Hunt's Pond. Similarly, if not even
more, confiding were the two Night Herons, three Green
Herons and five or six Kingfishers seen during the trip. 
Of all the interesting experiences connected with it perhaps
the most noteworthy was that occurring just before it
ended when a Wood Duck first approached on wing above
the crest of Ball's Hill and then pitched down into the
little bush-encircled lagoon across the river, to be flushed
there with two others of its kind only a few minutes
later, when one boat was pushed in through a narrow