Concord, Mass.
1910.
Sept 27
[September 27, 1919]

  Cloudy & rather warm with light easterly winds and a downpour of
rain for an hour or two in the middle of the day.

Black-polls still swarm
Yellow rumps arrive.
Sapsucker eating berries of tupelo.

  The woods everywhere about Ball's Hill were literally swarming again
with Black-polls to-day. Mr. Dexter of Concord says the village has
been alive with them of late. I noted no other Warblers to-day except
the Yellow-rump of which I heard one or two near the cabin this morning.
About noon I found a Sapsucker in the clusters of tupelo trees at our
boat landing and saw it eat what I took to be one of the tupelo
berries on which several Robins, also, were feeding.

4 Fish Hawks(?) soaring in company

  As Mr. Dexter & Gilbert were rowing across the river about
eleven o'clock they saw what they both took to be four Fish Hawks
soaring in company at a great height making shrill whistling cries.
Gilbert tells me they certainly were not Red-shouldered Hawks & that
their notes sounded to him like those of the Fish hawk. About an hour
after this I saw a single Fish Hawk flying low over the river past the
cabin towards the west & still later another pursuing the same course.