Concord, 
1893. 
July 27. 
Accibiter pooler 1 1. 
Mass. 
On my way back from Davis's Swamp while passing around 
the glacial hollow I started two young Cooper's Hawks from 
the pines on the west slope. They were fully grown with long 
tails and ample wings. One circled around me and flew back 
towards the nest, the other alighted among the dead lower 
branches of a pine where he sat very erect with feathers 
drawn in and eyeing me somewhat doubtfully. I passed within 
30 yards of the tree without causing him to fly again. 
In the afternoon as Deane and I were looking at some 
plants in the Ball's Hill swamp an adult female Cooper's Hawk 
passed directly over us heading towards the glacial holllow, 
flying low and very slowly, and bearing a bird in her talons 
clutching it apparently with both feet and holding it close 
up to her belly. I could not see what it was but two old 
Kingbirds were following her closely harassing her after their 
usual fashion. As they pecked at the back of her head she 
would throw up her bill and strike at them but she kept 
steadily on her course the while. Under the abandoned nest 
we found a dozen or more small oblong pellets all composed 
wholly of feathers among which I recognized only some of those 
of the Robin and Black-billed Cuckoo. 
