Glendale, Mass.
1911.
Sept 5
[September 5, 1911]

  Brilliantly clear and delightfully cool with fresh westerly wind.

Red-tailed Hawk with prey

  What was no doubt the same large Red-tailed Hawk noted on
Sept. 2nd [September 2, 1911] passed low over my head this morning flying heavily and
pursued by an irate mob of clamoring crows. On this occasion I had
a good view of its underparts which were dingy white with dark
markings showing it to be an immature bird. It looked almost as
big as a Fish Hawk for which, indeed, I at first mistook it
despite the fact that it issued directly from dense woods - at the
rear of the studio. Its heavy, labored flight was sufficiently
accounted for by the prey it bore in its talons, carrying it grasped in
both feet, apparently, and held well below the body. This was evidently
some mammal of fully the size of a half-grown Cotton-tail Rabbit &
I thought either that or a young Woodchuck.

Black-throated Blue Warbler in full song for hours.

  At frequent intervals through the entire forenoon I heard the full
& perfectly normal song of a Black-throated Blue Warbler near at hand
as I sat writing under the hemlocks at the rear of the studio.
There were periods, indeed, when this bird sang quite as often & freely
as one is likely to hear the species in May or June