Lake Utobagog. 
Broad-winged Hawksjare far more numerous here this spring 
them. I have ever known them to be in former years. They haunt the 
lake shore, probably to prey on the common Toads f which are now singing 
and spawning in the lake in simply incredible numbers. The Broad-wing 
is by all odds the most sluggish and the tamest of our Falconidae. A 
pair which haunt our cove 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 but for a jrew minutes at a time. Moat of 
the Hawks of this species that I have met with here this year have 
shown little or no fear of us ; permitting me to approach them within 
20 yards or less. They seem ^ invariably make a loud fluttering 
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sound when they take wing. They perch low down over the water when w 
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jwatching for prey. I hear only the killdeer note* 
