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Concord, Mass.
1916.
Aug. 30
to 
Nov. 4

connecting channel. All those birds rose together from a
flooded thicket beside the open pool and flew low off over
Great Meadow, uttering a few oh-eek calls. It was good
to hear these once familiar but now almost forgotten notes
and to have ever so fleeting a view of their authors.

Goshawk
Red shoul'd Hawks [Red-shouldered Hawk].

  Besides the birds above reported and a Gos-hawk [Goshawk]
mentioned in a previous connection, we saw three
Red-shouldered Hawks soaring together high in air
above the meadows while their shrill uttering, pleasingly
softened by distance, came to our ears every now and
then throughout most of the forenoon.