22 April 1861 – 28 April 1861

It was high water again about a week ago, — Mann thinks with{in] three or four inches as high as at end of winter. He obtained to-day the buffle-headed duck, diving in the river near the Nine-Acre Corner bridge. I iden- tify it at sight as my bird seen on Walden. I hear a chip-bird.

Think I hear bay-wings. Toads ring.

Horace Mann brings me apparently a pigeon hawk. ‘The two middle tail-feathers are not tipped with white and are pomted almost as a wood- pecker’s.