pine near the pond behind the hill. I started them at 
least three or four times from this tree, yet there are still 
no signs of a nest. 
Red-shouldered A pair Red-shouldered Hawks were holding high 
gewk s. carnival in Davis's swamp during much of the forenoon, 
soaring just above and dashing excitedly through the trees, 
both birds screaming almost incessantly . What a wild sound 
is the scream of this Hawk! It thrills one like fine music 
is 
yet it/scarcely musical although very far from discordant. 
Perhaps something was disturbing these birds for some Crows 
Crow with 
the voice 
of a 
Raven 
Great- 
crested 
Flycatcher 
Red 
Squirrel s 
were also flying about the swamp in an excited manner. 
A Crow which daily resorts to Holden's meadow 
to feed has a voice strikingly like a Raven's. Indeed it 
reproduces the cruc k. cr-r- crck of that bird so perfectly 
that I doubt if any one could detect the difference, if 
difference there be. 
<y~ 
L .On the top of the knoll crest of the glacial hol¬ 
low I saw to-day a silent Great-crested Flycatcher sitting 
on a dead branch of a pine. 
Red Squirrels appeared in April in the pines near 
this hollow and to-day I saw one in a maple on the bank of 
the river not far from my cabin. I was much surprised to-day 
to find a quantity of Rhodora in full bloom in the south-east 
corner of my swamp. 
Blueberry bushes still in full bloom in this swamp 
attracting bees in great numbers and a few Humming Birds, also. 
