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water at a rapid rate. A Bittern pumped once near the outlet 
as we passed and a Savanna Sparrow was singing in a bit of 
raised but yet moist meadow land. 
In the Wayland Meadow between the bridges we heard 
a Carolina Rail and saw a good many Eave Swallows. Orioles, 
Least Flycatchers and a Warbling Vireo or two were singing 
in the trees along the causeway. Nothing of any particular 
interest was noted during the passage of the great Sudbury 
Marshes nor indeed until we had passed through Fairhaven and 
and landed for lunch, at 2 P. M., on Martha’s Point. While 
here we heard a Wood Pewee and I found a Bluebird’s nest with 
young in a Woodpecker’s hole in the dead limb of a poplar 
just inside the edge of a strip of woods, an unusual situation 
if I remember rightly. At one time a pair of Red-shouldered 
Hawks appeared circling over Fairhaven and later a brown Bald 
Eagle which beat about close over the water for several 
minutes, apparently looking for fish. We started him from 
a tall pine on the edge of the Ov/l woods when we passed on 
our way towards Concord half-an-hour afterwards. 
We reached Concord by 5 o’clock and continued on 
down river without stopping to Ball’s Hill, where we had 
decided to pass the night, reaching this place a little before 
sunset. During the entire distance from the outlet of 
Heard's Pond we paddled in all not over a mile, our sails 
serving for the rest of the way. The passage through the 
Broad Meadow below Concord was especially delightful, the sun 
