Concord, Mass.
1913
April 7
[April 7, 1913]

  As S. O. Dexter [Smith Owen Dexter] & I were standing in front of the farm
house about 4 P.M. we saw seven Crows alight in a tree in
the berry pasture. A few moments later they took wing
& began harrying a [male] Marsh Hawk. Paying little heed
to this annoyance he continued to beat over the thicket
encumbered ground until at length he made a quick
turn and dropped out of sight among the high blueberry
bushes. As he did not reappear in the course of the 
next ten minutes we inferred that he must have
captured some prey and was devouring it. Approaching 
the spot we saw him fly off carrying nothing in
his talons. But on the ground precisely where
we had marked him down at first we found a 
Cotton-tail Rabbit's carcase [carcass] quite fresh yet wholly
devoid of animal heat and apparently in the
state of general muscular relaxation which follows