Fed-winded 
PI. ckbirde 
“ Irds seen 
on the 
rive? 
at evening 
'?e reached Concord at 1 P, M, after dinner I 
started for Ball's Hill in the Stella Marie canoe. The her vy 
rains of last week raised the river four or five feet and 
the w ter wan actually higher than in ^aroh. The river 
banks were everywhere submerged and I crossed the® a little 
‘below Long* s landing and netting sail stood down over the 
Great Meadow close hauled to the south-east breese. After 
leaving my things at the cabin I kept on to Bedford swamp 
where 1 landed and walked through the .grove of big pines. 
' o signs of the Red-toiled Haute >r their nest. The only 
small bird singing was a Mniotilta. At Tallis Hill X heard 
another Mniotilta, but nothing else. 1 did not go beyond 
the cabin, however. 
There were no Red-wings along the river but I saw 
several-large flocks whirling about over the field on the 
Bedford shore.' One flock-which alighted‘in a maple near 
the water contained 12 females and 15 males. These are. the 
first females that I have seen. 
At 5.30 I started for home, sailing back across 
Great Meadow, The Bittern driven from his usual haunts 
by the high water was a raping in the little brook meadow 
e-St of Ripley*s Hill. Yellow Isshier6 were singing among 
the submerged river thickets and two Bobolinks near the 
Ruttricks*. I saw no water fowl of any kind. A Marsh Hawk 
passed near Rail's Hill and two Cooper's Hawks near Flint's 
Bridge. 
