1891
 April 9
(No 2)
  Mass.
  Concord. -where the Cooper's Hawks had bred these 
past five years we heard what we at first supposed 
to be the screaming of Buteo lineatus coming from 
the pines. The next instant a [male] Cooper's Hawk 
appeared above the trees and after circling & 
soaring for a minutes or two plunged back into 
them again. Immediately after he disappeared the 
screaming was resumed & continued at intervals for 
some time. On listening to it closely we both 
concluded that it was harsher than that of lineatus 
and different in tome and that the notes were 
shorter & clipped off at the end as it were. Of course 
there is no proof that these cries were uttered by the 
Cooper's Hawk but I believe this to have been the case. 
  Landing in the usual place we strolled through 
the pine woods, starting a Grouse but seeing no 
small birds, then visited the apple tree on the 
edge of the swamp where I have found traces of 
Screech Owls for many successive seasons but never 
the bird itself. To day we were more fortunate, 
however, for the hole proved to contain a gray Owl 
which was squatting on the bottom with "ears" slightly 
raised and eyes half-open. We looked at it for 
some time but did not disturb it.
  On the stubble we started some Fox Sparrows. While 
watching them we saw a Hairy Woodpecker come 
galloping through the air towards an isolated 
apple tree on which it alighted for a moment 
before continuing its flight to the woods on the 
edge of the meadow. 
  We lunched in the sheltered hollow near