Concord, Mass.
Ball's Hill.
1900.
October 13
  Sunny, calm & warm up to nearly noon. Afternoon
cloudy with strong E. wind.
  While paddling down river this forenoon I saw a Hawk
alight on a stake from which, near the top, fluttered a white
cotton flag as large as a towell . The stake was on the meadow
opposite Hobb's camp & at the edge of the river. The bird
was so tame that I paddled to within less than 15 yards
before it flew. It was evidently the same Hawk which
I saw yesterday & took to be a Gos Hawk but I had it
in a better light to-day and made certain that it was
a Red-shouldered Hawk in most singular plumage the wings
and upper parts being spotted profusely & coarsely with white
& the upper tail coverts very light gray. The under parts
were white with narrow shaft streaks of dark brown. It
looked very like the specimen I shot when I was a boy
in the Pine Swamp, Cambridge, & which years afterwards
was destroyed by moths.
Red shoul'd
Hawk
  A Cat bird was running in the thickets near the
landing at Davis's Hill. I saw two Savanna Sparrows
in Holden's Meadow.
Cat bird
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