COI'ICORD 
1892 
October 14 
A Loon on 
Fairhaven 
Up river by boat with C., starting at 10 A. M. 
and reaching Fairhaven at noon, making most of the distance 
beyond Clamshell Hill under an umbrella sail and hence slowly. 
^ few scattered Crows, a female Marsh Hawk, a Jay or two, 
and several Song and Savanna Sparrows were the only birds 
seen or hear 
Landed at Staples Camp and lunched there. While 
thus engaged we saw a Loon arise, apparently from the water 
near the inlet, and after circling several times to attain 
a sufficient elevation go out over the woods to the north in 
the direction of Walden Pond where, however, we could not 
find it later. Perhaps it went to Sandy Pond instead. It 
was a rather large bird with pure white throat and fore neck. 
When first observed it wras not more than 20 feet above the 
water. 
Yellow-jacket Hornets came in numbers to a tumbler 
of currant jelly which we opened and into which they crawled 
fearlessly. They were tame and gentle as possible, alighting 
repeatedly on my face and hands. 
At 2 P. M we started through the woods for Walden. 
It was a walk to be long remembered, I think I have never 
before seen oak woods so richly colored as these — painted 
woods — wine-red the dominant tint. The scarlet oaks 
were steeped with this color and the undergrowth of huckle¬ 
berry bushes seemed to reflect it,as the scaulet of the 
maples along the river was reflected by the water a week or 
more ago. Of course these huckleberry bushes were really 
of the same color as the oaks. In places they formed a 
