Marsh Hawks 
Marsh Ha.wks must he migrating still, for I saw three 
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this afternoon, a fine white male and two females. The latter 
were hunting in company, something I never witnessed at this 
season before. 
Pine 
It was a great day for Pine Warblers. I heard two 
Warblers 
singing on the pitch pines on Hunt's knoll and at least four 
more in the Ball's Hill region besides the one (a male) in 
the apple tree with the Yellow Palm Warblers. The Pine 
Warbler’s song is a true trill, very musical and pretty, with 
a soothing quality perhaps derived from association with the 
sound of wind in the pines which so often accompanies it. 
Ruby- 
crowned 
Kinglet 
In the white pines on Bensen's knoll I found two 
Chickadees accompanied by a Golden-crested Kinglet with a 
Ruby-crown^ chattering not far off, also in a white pine. 
When I first heard the chatter faintly through intervening 
trees, I mistook it for the scolding of a Winter Wren. There 
is certainly some resemblance, though this fact never occurred 
to me before. 
Gooseanders 
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As I'was walking sldwly along a path through these 
pines, making no noise and so perfectly screened from the 
river that I could only just catch the glimmer of the water, 
I heard a great flapping of wings on the water near the 
shore below the ridge. Rushing out into the open, I saw a 
pair of Gooseanders flying swiftly off down river past Davis' 
Hill. It is remarkable that they could have discovered my 
