Peterboro, New Hampshire.
1899.
July & Aug
[margin]Notes &
observations
supplementing
those made
in 1898.[/margin]
  Accipiter velox. - One seen August 18th.
  Falco sparvius. - On August 28th as I was standing
on the summit of Pack Monadnock a young [female] Sparrowhawk
came flying past skimming low over the rocks. This bird
was no doubt a migrant (it was moving southward at the time)
but the species probably breeds sparingly in this region for I
saw an adult between Rindge and Winchenden or about twelve
miles south of Peterboro on the morning of Jul 10, 1899.
  Ardea herodias. - One seen at Cunningham Pond on August 8th
and another near West Jaffrey on August 24th.
  Ardea virescens. - Single birds seen Aug. 2, 19, 27 & 28.
  Philohela minor. - One seen at Temple on the evening of
August 20th flying from a wooded hillside to a brook meadow.
Abbot Thayer tells me that Woodcock bred abundantly this
year in the woods near his house at Dublins and that early
in July his son Gerald saw one alight twice on the
topmost twigs or sprays of some white pines which were
thirty or forty feet high. This happened during the evening
twilight but Gerald saw his bird distinctly against the
sky & is positive that it was a Woodcock.
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