Kinglet (singing at 5.A.}£.). A pair of Wood Ducks passed 
down river flying very swiftly, the duck first, then the 
drake, leading. 
The big Owl was silent when we first *woke, and 
afterward up to 4.25 when he began hooting, it being nearly 
borad daylight at that time. Late^ in the night (about 
2 A.M., I think) there were two Horned Owls hooting in 
the pines, answering one another. 
Soon after we had finished breakfast and just as 
we were about to start off in the canoe, it began raining 
and the wind rose to half a gale. We put on our rubber 
covers and pushed off, paddling to Martha's Point, where 
we landed and filled our jug at the spring. Taking to the 
boats again we made Sherman's Bridge by 10 A.M. paddling 
most of the way. It rained hard at times and the wind 
came in fierce gusts. Few birds singing. Heard one Solitary 
Vireo and many Swamp Sparrows. Saw a Red-shouldered Hawk 
and a fine old male Sheldrake. The latter was in the river 
just above its outlet into Fairhaven and was evidently a 
wounded bird for after diving twice it came up gasping 
painfully within two rods of my canoe, then essayed to 
fly but failing to clear the surface after flapping a hun¬ 
dred yards or store dove and disappeared, probably into the 
button bushes. 
