Concord, Mass.
1907
April 8
(No 2 )
but it was not more than ten minutes after I 
had left the Fox Sparrow roost before I was in that
of the Juncos. Moreover I have noticed in former
years that the clucking of the Juncos is, as a rule,
decidedly softer and less woodeny in tone than that 
of the Fox Sparrows. I do not now think, however,
that the difference is sufficient to be expressed by
mere verbal rendering unaccompanied by description
and qualification. Furthermore I now realise (perhaps
for the first time) that no one should venture to
positively identify an unseen bird of either species
by the clucking call alone.
  Will Bartlett called at the cabin yesterday afternoon
to tell me that he had just seen in Holden's woods
a pair of Red-shouldered Hawks which were unusually
tame and which he suspected were preparing to breed
there. I had noticed before this a large nest made
chiefly of sticks and placed in the fork of a 
tall chestnut that stands at the base of the
hill a little to the westward of the big white pine
in which a pair of Red-shouldered Hawks raised
a brood of young eight or nine years ago. On
approaching this nest about 5 P.M. today I saw
one of the Hawks leave it & fly off through the trees.
Red-shouldered Hawks nest in Holden Hill woods
  As I was passing our stone horse shed this
evening just before dark (at 6.15 P.M.) I disturbed
the pair of Phoebes which always breed there but which
have not yet begun their nest. Both of them flew
out from somewhere well back in the shed. Without
doubt they had gone to roost there.
Pair of Phoebes roosting in shed