1907 
April 8 
to 
June 30 
(No 2)
this I saw them nearly every time I visited Holden's
Hill. They perched in the tall oaks near the nest
and screamed incessantly when undisturbed but as soon
as they became aware of my presence they invariably became
silent. Their cries were the same to my ears as those
of their parents - the thick, wild, ringing notes which the
Blue Jays imitate so closely. After leaving the nest these
young Hawks were quite as shy as old ones. Indeed
I did not ever get within gunshot of any of them. On July
14th, the date of writing this, three of them were seen near
the nest by Mr Forbush but he is not sure that
all of the them were young. The male parent of the brood is
in immature plumage looking like a bird of the year.
The female parent is in fully adult plumage.
  Last year a pair of Red-shouldered Hawks reared
their young in a nest placed out over 25 ft above 
the ground in a scrubby oak on the crest of a
ridge in the Blakemore wood lot near Holden's Hill
and about 150 yards from the site chosen this year.
About ten or twelve years ago a pair nested in the
big pine at Holden's Hill within 50 yards of the chestnut
where the nest was this season. These three instances
are the only ones known to me of nesting in this
immediate locality. In May 1903 I found a fresh nest
in a pine on the west side of Davis swamp. Strange to
say I have never known a pair of these Hawks to
nest two successive years in the same woods on my
place here although they have never been disturbed.
The ground under the nest occupied this season was white
with excrement but I searched it closely & repeatedly without
finding a single pellet or any traces of the birds' prey.
Nesting of Red-shouldered Hawks.