Concord, 
1894. 
Oct. 11 
to 
Nov. 21. 
But eo boreal is et llneatus . 
Mass . 
During stormy or very windy weather I seldom saw any 
Buteog. Oil the meadows but on clear, still clays there were 
nearly always from one to three or four between Flint's Bridge 
and Ball's Hill perched in the large oahs , elms or maples 
that are scattered along the banks of the river. The trees 
at the Holt and those at Dakin's bend seemed to be most fre- 
quented but another favorite place was the upper part of the 
Barret's Bar reach. 
Through. October the Red-shouldered Hawks were by far the 
more numerous of our two common species but after November 1st 
the Red-tails outnumbered them three or four to one or rather, 
to be more precise and explicit, the Red-shouldered Hawks were 
common through October and seldom seen in November while the 
reverse was true of the Red-tails. Nearly all the Red-should- 
ers and certainly more than half of the Red-tails that I saw 
were old birds. Both species have learned to fear a man in a 
boat. Fifteen or twenty years ago I often succeeded in pad- 
dling to within short range of them but this autumn I did not 
once get within even long gunshot. 
