1906
Oct.14
  Brilliantly clear with light east wind. Ther. 24 degrees yesterday
morning, 28 degrees this morning. On both mornings the entire
face of nature was white with hoar frost. The flowers
were nearly all killed yesterday and most of the red
maples have cast their leaves. At sunrise yesterday I
watched those of a tree at Balls Hill falling one after 
another, ceaselessly, for half an hour. There was not a
breath of wind at the time. 
  Early yesterday morning as I was looking off over
the frost covered meadows and admiring their silvery sheen
the thought occurred to me that it was just the right
time & place to hear the first Snow Bunting. A moment
later the clear whistled call of one of these birds came
to my ear from the blue dome above. I  heard the
sound several times and growing fainter in the distance
towards the south-west.
  I heard Red Crossbills yesterday morning in two places
and this morning the calls of what must have been 
a large flock were heard by Forbush & me at Balls Hill.
  As I was paddling across the river early this forenoon
a Sharp-shinned Hawk appeared over Ball's Hill soaring
in narrow circles high in air. As I watched it five
Titlarks made what seemed to be a timid, half-hearted
attempt to mob it. They darted above & around it
in certain courses at times passing apparently within
a yard or so of it. The little Hawk paid not the
slightest attention to them but continued to swing
around and around in the blue sky on set wings.