Carlisle, Mass.
1911.
August 13
[August 13, 1911]

Buteo borealis

  During a visit to the Carlisle Pines, made this
afternoon in company with the Melvins, I heard a
Red-tailed Hawk. There was no mistaking its
peculiar wheezy, whinnying cry repeated a dozen times
or more near at hand. Apparently the bird was concealed
somewhere in the tops of the tall pines but I
failed to get a sight at it. Probably it flew from
there unseen for not long after it ceased screaming I
heard crows cawing excitedly, as if mobbing something,
just beyond a wooded ridge at some distance away.

Ant Lion

 In a pathway under the pines I found an
Ant Lion's pit with an Ant Lion at the bottom.
Although I searched carefully all about I could not
discover another.

Kingbird assaults Bluebird

   On the way back I saw a King Bird pursue, overtake
& severely [?] a Blue Bird with its bill finally
clinching & coming to the ground with it from a height of 40
feet in an open field. When they separated the Blue Bird seemed
little hurt although rather clawed.