Glendale, Mass.
1911.
Sept. 1
(No 2)
[September 1, 1911]

Heavy nocturnal flight of Warblers

  Just before midnight I heard Warblers in very unusual 
numbers chirping in the star-lit heavens overhead. The flight continued
unabated for at least half an hour later or as long as I remained
awake. Hitherto this season I have heard only a very few birds
passing southward at night. Among them have been several
Wilson's Thrushes giving the night call.

Jays begin screaming

  Promptly with the incoming of autumn this morning the
Blue Jays have begun screaming everywhere throughout the Glendale Woods.
Before this I have heard them only occasionally & sparingly.

Hylas calling

  The Pickering's Hylas, too, began their autumnal calling everywhere
to-day. I heard them first only two days ago.

Sept 2 [September 2, 1911]

Red-tailed Hawk

  About 8 A.M. I saw a very large Red-tailed Hawk, evidently
a [female], soaring majestically, high in air, over the house. As it drifted
off southward it was attacked & very persistently harried for several
minutes by a small Hawk which looked like a [male] Sharp-shinned &
which kept darting down at from above. The sight of a Red-tailed hawk
is not often vouchsafed to me anywhere now.