1893
April 24
(No 2)
Concord, Mass.
[margin](Ball's Hill)
Cooper's Hawks[/margin]
 At about 10A.M. I was passing the glacial hollow
when I heard the Cooper's Hawk mewing in the pines where
it was last evening. After giving the drawling, Jay-like cleu
a few times it uttered a cry which I have never heard
before kec, kec, kec, kec, kec, kec, kec, kec, kec, kec, the 
first two syllables given slowly & disconnected, all the others
rapidly in a connected series. The tone was varied somewhat
during the several repititions to which I was treated. At
times it [delete]resemble[/delete] had a barking quality and once it 
bore a startling resemblance to the cackle of a Florida
Gallinule. The ca-ca-ca cry was also given once or twice.
All these notes were answered by another bird in the
trees on the other side of the hollow. Presently both
appeared and as if for my express benefit flew from
tree to tree and crossed & recrossed the hollow alighting
several times in open view within 40 yds of me. The
male was in immature plumage with drab back and
longitudinally-streaked under parts. The female was
in fully adult dress with very richly-colored breast. She
looked nearly as large as a Red-tailed Hawk. Both
sexes uttered the same cries. When punched they moved
their heads about alertly and bobbed them up & down
somewhat after the manner of owls. They also raised
& lowered their tails rather slowly like Thrashers or
Catbirds. Once the male after alighting on a branch
of a pitch pine moved his position ten or twelve
feet by a series of long jumps among the branches.
 After awhile the female rose above the trees and
began soaring in circles with all the ease & grace of
a Buteo. She went off towards Bensen's & suspecting
her intentions I watched her through my glass. When