CONCORD 
1911 
October 22 
Golden 
Plover 
As H. W. Henshaw and I were standing at the edge 
of the river near Benson's Knoll about eleven o'clock this 
forenoon, we heard with perfect distinctness, repeated a 
dozen times or more the shrill, squealing flight call of a 
Golden Plover which, as indicated by the sound, was evidently 
flying in a great circle over Great Meadows. Some ten 
minutes later we heard it again perhaps a score of times as 
we were at the cabin when the bird appeared to first circle 
over Holden’s Meadow and then to go off out of hearing to 
the south-west. Once or twice it seemed to be within two 
hundred yards but the mist was so dense that we failed to 
get a sight at it. I judged by the quality of its voice that 
it was a young bird or "Pale Belly". 
