Stockbridge, Mass.
1911.
Sept 5
(No 2)
[September 5, 1911]

Night-hawks

    During the afternoon, spent on the golf links at Stockbridge,
I saw Night-hawks passing low down at intervals,  4 [in a flock] 3 [in a flock] & 1 [in a flock] going
westward, 10 flying straight south west, all moving in the usual
desultory manner at a height of fifty or sixty feet. It was cloudy &
calm at the time.

A pair of adult Rose breasted Grosbeaks.

     On the banks of the pretty little river that winds through the
meadows near the village D.C. French [Daniel Chester French] & I found a number of
birds. Most interesting of them were two Rose-breasted Grosbeaks which
kept close together in a willow and apparently were a mated pair for
the [female] looked like an old Bird and the [male] was unquestionably fully adult
having a beautiful rosy breast and black wings & tail although the black
of his head & back was partly concealed by a pronounced wash of
rusty brown as is always the case with birds of his age & sex
in autumn. There were also 3 noisy Kingfishers, at least two
Water Thrushes and three Phoebes, a Wood Pewee and a number
of Robins & Cedar Birds in the tree bordering this stream.