Concord, Mass.
1907.
April 11
(No 2)
probably one of our most sheltered places in Concord
during the late storm and it is at all times a favorite
resort of Phoebees but there were certainly none
of the birds here yesterday nor could I find
any of them elsewhere. They kept close about the
river to-day and frequently hovered just above the
water, dipping down to it and probably picking up
floating insects. I saw one pair at the horse shed.
Phoebees.
  At least 50 Crows assembled on Pine Ridge this
forenoon where they seemed to be mobbing something
for they were making a tremendous outcry and
dashing down among the pines. Two Red-shouldered
Hawks were soaring in the very midst of the
excited Crows and screaming wildly. It is possible
that the Crows were protesting against the presence
of the Hawks but more likely, I think, that both
birds were mobbing something else, perhaps a Fox,
Crows mobbing something
  I found a Woodcock this afternoon in a place
where I have never started one before; viz. in Prescott's
Pines, next the wood road that leads to the meadow but
on high, dry land, among very dense white pines.
I flushed him twice but did not see him either
time for he rose fully thirty yards away, to judge
by the sound of his wings, and the pine foliage
obstructed my view. His shyness was due, no doubt,
to the fact that the ground in the woods was
nearly everywhere covered with snow. Under such
conditions Woodcock will seldom permit a near
approach.
Woodcock in pine woods