Lake Umbagog.
1909
June 3 [June 3, 1909]
(No 3)
  As I was standing by the roadside this evening, looking
at some wildflowers, a Song Sparrow began chirping excitedly
among some bushes on the further side of a little spring.
The next instant a female Sharp-shinned Hawk dropped
into the thicket with dangling legs and fluttering wings.
It missed the Sparrow, however, and rising to a branch
of a birch perched there for a moment with its gaze 
directed downward, evidently watching for some movement
to betray the exact place of concealment of the Sparrow. It
saw me a second or two later & darted off through the trees.
Sharp shin
Hawk
strikes at
Song Sparrow
but misses
it.
  Shortly after sunset a Nashville Warbler rose above
some birch & poplar woods to sing on wing. This I
have not often seen (or heard). I noted the bird's song on the
spot as follows: - chip, te-chip, te-chip, te-chip,
te-te-ta-te. The preliminary chips were disconnected &
given rather slowly. The terminal part of the song was normal.
Flight
song of
Nashville
Warbler