Although I failed to get so much as a glimpse at 
the creature, I was satisfied that it was a Shrew. It 
worked steadily along the side of the hill near its base, 
covering a distance of nearly fifty yards in the course 
of ten or fifteen minutes. Its notes were highly musical 
although at no time loud enough to be heard more than a 
few rods away. It did not once utter the fine, wiry 
squeaking which one usually hears from these little animals. 
The song was much like that of a singing Mouse but I do 
not think a Mouse would have behaved in this manner, 
| About the middle of the afternoon several Leopard 
Frogs began croaking over on the Bedford shore. They are 
the first Frogs of any kind that I have heard this spring. 
I cannot understand what makes the Hylas and Wood Frogs 
so late. 
The first Osprey appeared early this forenoon, 
coming in from the South and passing out of sight down 
river, flying at a height of several hundred feet and 
apparently migrating. 
As I was starting for home at 5 P. M., I heard 
the cry of a Herring Gull and, looking up, saw three of 
these birds circling at so great a height that they 
looked no larger than Swallows. 
