Concord, Mass.
1911.
Oct. 25
[October 25, 1911]

  Clear with light southerly wind. The whole country
white with hoarforst and shallow parts skimmed over at
sunrise this morning but most of the day was warm.

Marsh Hawk perches on pole at least 12 ft. [feet] above meadow

  As H. W. Henshaw [Henry Wetherbee Henshaw] & I were crossing the river this
morning we saw a large female Marsh Hawk alight
on a pole which the haymakers had left standing out
in the meadows opposite Ball's Hill, its top fully
twelve feet above the ground. The bird closed its
wings and remained perched on the pole for at least
a minute, sitting rather erect. When it took flight
again it began beating the meadow in the usual
characteristic way. This is the only instance
that I recall when I have ever known a
Marsh Hawk to alight at anything like so great
a height above the surface of the ground.