Bethel, Maine
1907.
Jan'y 30
   Two of the ladies at Dr. Gehring's reported seeing a
quantity of feathers scattered about on the ground in the
Glen Woods, yesterday. The Doctor and I went there to
investigate the matter this morning. We found the story
of a woodland trajedy writ large and clear, with much
interesting detail, in the deep, dry snow. Under a large
white pine with dead lower branches were seven primaries,
two secondaries and a few body feathers of a Ruffed Grouse,
scattered over a space of five or six square yards. All
of these feathers had been pulled out. Among them was a 
single bluish wing covert of an adult Goshawk, and three
hard-frozen lumps of hawk excrement chalky and
porous on the outside with cylyndrical cores of dark,
solid matter. These signs showed conclusively, of course,
that a Goshawk had perched for sometime in the pine
and that it had at least partially plucked a Partridge
while there. The comparatively small number of feathers of
the Partridge and the entire absence of any fragments
of flesh or of blood stains suggested that the Hawk
may have taken its victim to some other place before
eating it.
Goshawk & Partridge
  Beginning some sixty yards from the pine and
ending within thirty feet of it, after winding through a
dense thicket of young balsams, was a curious and most
interesting trail. That it had been made by the Hawk
and Partridge in combination was evident but exactly
how this had been accomplished was not so clear.
Apparently the Hawk after striking down the Partridge
had alternately ridden it through and carried it just
above the surface of the snow. Where it had
ridden it there was a deep furrow with evenly-spaced