Concord, Mass.
1907.
Nov. 23
(No 3)
see the dark markings on the side of the heard.
Altogether the identification was perfectly satisfactory,
indeed quite conclusive. Never before have I had an adult
Goshawk so long in view under conditions so favorable
for observing it. The bird was evidently on its way
from one covert to another and not looking for prey.
Flying at a height barely sufficient to clear the tops
of our apple trees and somewhat below those of the
elms it passed almost over our tempting flock of
Plymouth Rock fowls without seeming to notice them
and one of the pigeons crossed its line of flight.
It looked as large as a big Red-tailed Hawk and
like that bird heavy-bodied and broad-chested but
the long tail suggested the Accipiters. It moved in
a perfectly straight course, alternately flapping and
gliding, much in the manner of a Buteo and not
more swiftly I thought. Its wing beats were easy
and seemingly almost effortless. I doubt if Cooper's
Hawk ever flies in so leisurely a way and
so comparatively slowly. This is the first Goshawk
I have heard of this season. They were very
numerously throughout New England last autumn &
winter.
Goshawk
  I found a small hemlock in the woods near Pulpit 
Rock that had recently been almost completely stripped of
its bark and of many of its branches also. This was
evidently the work of a small Deer, a young doe apparently,
whose tracks were all about the spot. I noticed the
foot prints of a large buck in the river path at
Ball's Hill.
Deer