CONCORD, 
1907 
c 'y?t ember 37 
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As I was at work setting oi it plants on the shores 
of the little artificial pond in our berry pasture this 
morning, I heard thf rustling sound of wings very lear me. 
The next instant, a blitary Sandpiper alighted about 20 
yards distant. The bird ap : eared to have ju t come from 
a distance and was no doubt a migrant fresh from the ’forth. 
The first thing it did was to satisfy its thirst by wading 
into the water and drinking copiously, just as a Warbler, 
Thrush or Sparrow would have done, that is to say by 
io- ersing the partly open bill and then pointing it upward 
to let the water rim down its throat,at the same time 
working the mandibles. I this way it secured a number of 
swall"we. It then rambled almost entirely around the pond* 
trying fof food in a number of places but apparently falling 
to secure any. The ground was, for the most part, too hard 
for it to probe,although It attempted to do wo, it 
length (a out ten minutes after its first appearance) I 
looked up and found that it had departed in silence. 
Later in the day, P t Flan ery heard a Kingfisher 
r ttling and saw it alight in a small elra over the pond. 
There are a few minnows there. How quickly the Kingfisher 
dl covers their ore ence in such remote places] This 
pool wan dry only a year or two ago. X have just enl rged 
It considerably. Ho doubt Ducks will come to It in course 
of time. 
