Bethel, Maine
1907
July 18-22
  I was in Bethel - at the Gehrings - from the evening of the
18th to noon of the 22nd. The weather was for the most part
clear and just pleasantly cool. Most of my time was spent 
about the grounds near the house or in the woods at its rear
but on the afternoon of the 19th Dr. Gehring took me to Songo
Pond where we fished for two or three hours, floating, in a boat,
off the mouth of the brook. There were a few Red-wings there
apparently nesting and all old birds. The song of a Hermit Thrush
came floating down from a hill pasture to the west and
A Swainson's Thrush was singing in white pine woods on the
shore of the pond. At a house near it where we got the oars
& key for our boat a few Purple Martins were flying about a
small bird house on a pole.
  About the doctor's place birds of most kinds sang freely
during my stay. I heard even Nashvilles and Chestnut-sided
Warblers, not only in the early morning but at intervals through
the day.
  At morning and evening the woods on both sides of the
house, and at its rear, rang with the music of numerous
Veeries. There was at least one Hermit, also. After twilight
fell one or two Whippoorwills began their songs. One bird
delivered its notes much more slowly than I have ever
heard them given before.
  A pair of Broad-winged Hawks were haunting the
swampy woods below the orchard where I saw them 
repeatedly and often heard their shrill cries. Once both birds
were in sight at once soaring above the trees. Whenever I
saw them on wing they were pursued and harried by one or
more Crows who attacked them after the manner of King birds
rising above and swooping down at them occasionally picking their
heads or back. The Hawks bore this persecution with admirable
Broad-winged Hawks