Lake Umbagog.
1909.
June 11 [June 11, 1909]
(No 5) 
  Broad-winged Hawks are far more numerous
here this spring than I have ever known them to be
in former years. They haunt the lake shore, probably
to prey on the Common Toads which are now singing
& spawning in the lake in simply [?] numbers.
The Broad-wing is by all odds the most sluggish
and the tamest of our Falconidae. A pair which
haunt our cove must spend most of their time perched on
stubs near our boat. They soar and scream frequently
but only just above the tops of the trees and for
but a few minutes at a time. Most of the
Hawks of this species that I have met with here
this year have shown little or no fear of me permitting
me to approach them within 20 yards or less. They
seem to invariably make a loud fluttering sound
when they take wing. They perch low down over
the water when watching for prey. I hear only the killdeer note.
Broad wing
Hawks