7^^r-f owl 
Uhistlers 
Geese? 
Herrins* Gulls 
I cannot remember ever seeing so many migrating in company 
before. 
Between 1 and 3 P. M. Ducks were passing and 
repassing Ball’s Hill every few minutes in flocks of from 
five or six to fifteen or twenty birds each. Most of them 
were Golden-eyes. I could hear the silvery whistle of 
their wings with perfect distinctness as I sst writing in 
the cabin with the door open. They flew at a considerable 
height as a rule. [The gunners were stirring them up as I 
learned a little later when the Jones boys called and when 
Richardson and Herbert Holden passed. The Joneses showed 
me a fine adult male Gooseander which they had just shot. 
They have a grass screen which they attach to the bows of 
their little canvas canoe. They reported seeing a flock 
of eight birds which they took to be Brant, in the river 
near Birch Island. They paddled within about 80 yards when 
the birds rose with a chorus of low honks. They had black 
heads and necks and brown backs and were too small for 
C a nada Geese. Young Richardson afterwards told me that the 
flock passed directly over him and that he called them 
Black Ducks 11 Gilbert sew two Black Ducks pa.ss the cabin 
and a flock of eleven Herring Gulls below Davis’s Hill. 
As I an writing this a pair of Gulls are circling over the 
river very near the cabin, making the air ring with their 
wild, shrill cries ( cle-ure , cle-ure , cle-ure ). Altogether 
this has been a great week for water-fowl on the Concord 
