Concord, Mass.
1909
May 19
(No 5)
are accustomed to do at all seasons when descending
to their feeding grounds from high in air.
Wilson's Snipe
  It is very late in the spring, of course, for
Snipe to be lingering here and the persistence &
fervor of this particular bird in respect to drumming
lead me to suspect that he may have a mate
and a nest somewhere in the meadows which
he is haunting.
  Twice this afternoon I saw a fine adult male
Marsh Hawk beating the Great Meadows. On each
occasion his presence created a great disturbance 
among the Red-wings who followed him with
loud cries of alarm darting down at him from
above as they do at Crows & at Bitterns, too,
for that matter. I wonder if they have any real
reason to fear either the Marsh Hawk or the Bittern.
Red wings mobbing a Marsh Hawk