7/15/oj 
Never at any season have I heard so many Swamp Sparrows, On 
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my way to Carlisle Bridge and hack this afternoon they 
was seldom a full minute when I did not hear at least one 
or two. Song Sparrows and Maryland Yellow-throats were 
also singing delightfully hut in less numbers* I see one 
or two Bitterns and Green Herons flying about and dropping 
among the 6 rass almost every time I look across from the 
cabins. 
At evening I hear the hoarse quawk of Night Herons 
or see them high in air over Ball’s Hill. This afternoon 
a Black Duck passed me, flying down river and this morning 
I saw a brown Marsh Hawk, apparently a young male. Kingbirds 
are unusually numerous along the river, perching on dead 
branches low over the water. A Kingfisher flies back and 
forth past the cabins, rattling noisily, I see a Musk Rat 
or two at evening and one or two large Snapping Turtles 
daily. Bobolinks are not numerous but I hear their clink, 
clink once or twice at morning and evening. On the evening 
of the 17th a Marsh Wren was singing just below the Lagoon, 
About a week before this I heard two there and also two Short- 
bills. As I was paddling up river and nearing the landing 
at Bali’s Hill on the evening of the 17th a Woodcock 
skimmed low over me, crossing the river and apparently 
dropping into the marsh on the Bedford side. That same 
evening a Whippoorwill sang a few notes near the stone 
boat-house. 
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