96
Concord, Mass.
1898.
May 18
(No 3)       
several inches from the nest. I think it must
have been rolled out by the bird who started and 
ran off after her usual fashion but without
making her usual whirring.
  In a dry pasture we started a Field Sparrow
from her nest which was sunk in the ground
under a birch and contained three eggs. 
  On our way back we passed through the
Glacial Hollow to see what the Cooper's Hawks
were about. The [male] barked at us as we approached
and we started the [female] from her nest which
is placed in a tall pine nearly 50 feet above
the ground. Under the trees near the nest we
found where the Hawks had killed a Robin
and a Yellow-billed Cuckoo scattering wing, tail &
body feathers over the ground. The [female] Hawk looked
very large. She left the nest before we quite 
got beneath it and flew off very heavily & clumsily
for a bird of this kind.
  After dinner Dean climbed to the nest & found
that it contained only one egg. It was lined
with bark & a few pine needles.
  At the lower edge of Mrs. Barnett's orchard we
started a [female] Broad-winged Hawk nearly 
over us carrying a Mouse in its talons. I have
practically no doubt that it was the same bird
that Purdie & I saw in the same place on May
1st & which I thought at the time to be a 