Belmont, Mass.
1902.
August 26
  Clear and warm with light S.W wind.
  Gilbert and I spent the day taking photographs
about Rock Meadow skirting its southern and western
borders and returning through the willows & past the
mill ponds to Waverly.
  The extensive, rocky, cedar-grown pastures south of
the meadow were simply swarming with Bluebirds &
Chipping Sparrows and the scattered rum cherry trees
alive with Robins & Cedar Birds. We also saw here
a night hawk which flushed from a open rocky knoll
& after flying a short distance alighted again allowing
one to approach within thirty feet.
  As we were eating lunch under the shade of a big
red maple a Broad-winged Hawk flew down into
a meadow where the grass had just been cut. Through
my glass I made out all its characteristic markings
with perfect distinctness. It was a fairly adult bird
with broad white tail bands.
  Later in the day we saw a young Red-Tailed Hawk
perched on a fence rail in the meadow south of
the turnpike.
  At the eastern end of the willows we flushed a
bevy of seven Quail from a thicket by the roadside.
They were surprisingly large for the season - fully two thirds
grown I should say.
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