1902
Oct. 2
(No 2)
the same as during the breeding season. All the while
that he was calling two Partridges were drumming in
different directions within sixty yards of the spot
where I imagined him to be. Neither they nor the
chucking Chipmunks, nor the small birds flitting about
in the branches over me seemed to suspect or at least to
regard the near presence of the merciless Accipiter. I saw
either him or another of his kind flying high over the
farm house an hour later. My men say that he
has been harrying the Pigeons of late and that he caught
one of them (a white bird) a few days ago while on
another occasion he frightened them so badly that the
entire flock departed & were absent an entire day.
Pat tells me that he alighted in one of the big elms
that shade the house yesterday morning when the
Pigeons dashed in the barn & wood shed remaining
there until the Hawk departed.
Cooper's Hawk.
  It was a great morning for Red-shouldered Hawks.
During the entire forenoon, in fact, they were screaming 
as loudly and incessantly as I have ever known them
to in early spring. I saw one soaring over Great Meadow,
another started from a pine on Davis's Hill and
two were flying together over Birch Island. At the farm
I heard them, as I have just said, all the forenoon.
Red-shouldered Hawks numerous & noisy.
  While at work in the orchard at about 10 A.M.
I happened to glance up & directly overhead at an immense
height were two Fish Hawks soaring in circles.
They were so very high that they looked no larger than
Pigeons.
Fish Hawks
  As I was paddling up river at evening I saw three
Musk rats & a small snake. The latter was crossing the river
to Davis's Hill. It was nearly dark at the time.
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