Solitary 
Sandpip er 
Bittern 
Rail 
Night 
Herons 
"being well down in the west and the "birds singing freely. 
During most of the day we heard comparatively few owing, doubt 
less, to the high wind but now the wind had subsided to a 
gentle breeze and tne air rang with bird music. There were 
many Bobolinks along tne ridge between the river and the 
meadow but not as many, I thought, as in former years. Oriole 
were fluting in the white maples along the banks but we heard 
no Warbling Vireos. Spotted Sandpipers were very numerous, 
at least six or eight being seen or heard. There were no 
Solitary Sandpipers here but we disturbed one yesterday when 
we landed.at Ball's Hill. 
After getting our canoes ready for the night, we 
climbed Ball's Hill to see the sunset. Its last rays 
streaming through a rent in the clouds that were massing in 
the west threw a strange, lurid light over the broad meadow 
intensifying its uniform green coloring to an almost painful 
degree, then leaving it suddenly in gloom which deepened 
rapidly as the shades of night fell. A Bittern was pumping 
in the usual place and a Carolina Rail singing fitfully. 
Once I caught the notes of a Virginia Rail, also. Five Night 
Herons appeared high in air from down river and passed 
directly over the meadow and beyond the woods towards Fair- 
haven, but a sixth which quickly followed them wheeled a few 
times and descending in a graceful spiral alighted in tne 
