1893
April 21 
(no 2)
Concord, Mass.
  Returning to Bensen's I heard a Woodpecker uttering
the chick which is common to both P. pubescens &
P. villosus but which differs slightly, I have always
thought, with the two species. I set this bird down
for villosus the first moment I heard it and following up
the sound found that I was right. The bird, a female, 
was pecking small holes in a very slender & rotten
oak stub from which it extracted several insects
(probably larvae of wood borers) while I was watching
it. The Hairy Woodpecker is a more alert, energetic
and restless bird than the Downy & it is also
more noisy. The chick note is louder and repeated often. 
[margin]Ball's Hill[/margin]
[margin]Hairy
Woodpecker[/margin]
  While talking with Bensen I noticed some tufts of
white Hen's feathers scattered about on the ground within
a few yards of his shed. He told me that something
had killed a Hen there about 4 days ago & had
taken it away. The next day more feathers found
near the bars below the barn and another Hen missing.
Yesterday morning a "very large gray Hawk" appeared and
pounced on a Hen near some bushes about 50 yards
west of the barn. Before Bensen could get to the spot
the Hawk had killed the Hen and "eaten her head
off." Bensen drove a peg in the ground and tying
the Hen to it set a steel trap on her body. He said
it had not been disturbed but when he took me
to the spot we found the trap sprung & the hen & 
peg gone. The jaws of the trap showed no trace of
feathers or hair. 
[margin]Hens killed 
by a Hawk
(Cooper's)[/margin]
  The only Hawk (besides Marsh Hawks) which I have 