1893
July 27
   Clear with N.W. wind, a fine, cool day.
  I spent the 25th and 26th at Cambridge. This
morning a party of us went to Ball's Hill for the day,
C. driving down, Mr. & Mrs. Deane, E.R.S. and E.K. going
in the day and I in the Stella Maris canoe.
  Soon after landing I walked to Davis's Swamp to
see Pat. On the way back while passing around the
glacial hollow I started two young Cooper's Hawks from
the pines on the west slope. They were fully grown
with long tails and ample wings. One circled around me
and flew back towards the nest, the other alighted among
the dead lower branches of a pine where he sat very erect
with feathers drawn in longing long & slender & eyeing
me somewhat doubtfully. I passed within 30 yds. of
the tree without causing him to fly again.
[margin]Cooper's Hawks[/margin].
  In the afternoon as Dean & I were looking at some
plants in the Ball's Hill swamp an adult female Cooper's
Hawk passed directly over us heading towards the
glacial hollow, flying low and very slowly, and
bearing a bird in her talons clutching it apparently
with both feet and holding it close up to her belly.
I could not see what it was but two old Kingbirds
were following her closely harassing her after their 
usual fashion. As they picked at the back of her
head she would throw up her bill & strike at
them but she kept steadily on her course the which,
Under the abandoned nest we found a dozen or more
small oblong pellets all composed wholly of feathers
among which I recognized only some of those of the Robin & Black-
billed Cuckoo.