1911] The Ottawa Naturalist. 79 



remain keep so close to the dense underbrush as to be most 

 difficult to find. In spite of all their care, however, great num- 

 bers fall victims to the hunting of the hawks, and little scattered 

 piles of fresh feathers dot the ground under the shelter of the 

 red cedars, from one end of the Point to the other. The Olive- 

 backed and Grey-cheeked thrushes are the greatest sufferers, in 

 fact it almost looks as if the hawks followed these species down 

 from the north, but the warblers, flycatchers, vireos and sparrows 

 also have much to endure. The Blue Jays seem much harrassed 

 but are so well able to take care of themselves that but few are 

 caught. They assume an air of watchful bravado and though 

 thev often frequent the most exposed positions and are loud in 

 their discordant calling, they seldpm venture far from the pro- 

 tecting grape-vines and at an instant's notice are ready to dive 

 down into their protecting depths. Brown Thrashers keep close 

 in the thickest juniper growths and slink across from cover to 

 cover in the most inconspicuous manner pdssible. Flickers, 

 though often attacked, seem always ready to dodge behind a 

 branch when they see danger coming and we have seen little or 

 no evidence of their suffering to any extent from the assaults of 

 the little accipiters. 



Cooper Hawk. (Accipiter cooperi). 



Though the Cooper, Hawk flight is nothing in extent like that 

 of its smaller relative, it is still well worthy of mention. It 

 comes later than the first flight of the latter and many of them 

 remain with the Sharp-shins until well into the late fall and early 

 winter. Our first experience with them was September 26, 1908, 

 when 150 birds were observed a day. Since then we have almost 

 alwavs found them abundant any time about the latter part of 

 September and early October. If the Sharp-shins are hard on 

 small bird life the Cooper Hawks are much worse. The flickers 

 and Blue Jays that escape practically scot free from the smaller 

 hawks suffer extremely from these larger enemies, and among the 

 feathery remains that we find scattered over the ground many are 

 those of Meadow Larks that do not put in an appearance until 

 well along in September. Neither of these two hawks seem to do 

 much hunting or moving about in the early morning and are 

 usuallv not in strong evidence until the sun is well up. As in the 

 Sharp-shins, the first birds to arrive in the fall are the juveniles, 

 while the later ones are nearly all adults. 



Red-Shouldered Hawk. {Buteo lineatus). 



This species that we listed in our "Birds of Point Pelee" 

 (1907)* as, "the rarest Buteo on the Point," we have since 



* Wilson Bulletin, 1907. 



