1902 
October 2 
H awk ^ 
cackling: 
in 
autumn 
Cooper * s 
Hawk 
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As I was watching the Vireos I suddenly hea.rd the 
barking kck ; kck ; kek-heh-heh-heh-heh-heh of a Cooper's Hawk, 
The bird was evidently within thirty or forty yards but he 
kept so closely concealed among the dense white pimes that 
I did not get a sight at him. He repeated his outcry three 
or four times within the next ten minutes. I do not think 
that I have ever heard it before in the autumn. It was precisely 
the same as during the breeding season. 
All the while that he was calling two Partridges 
were drumming in different directions within sixty yards of 
the spot where I imagined him to be. Neither they nor the 
chuck ing: Chipmunks, nor the small birds flitting about in 
the branches over me seemed to suspect or at least to regard 
the near presence of the merciless Accipiter . I saw either 
him or another of his kind flying high over the farm-house 
an hour le.ter. My men say that he has been liarrying the 
Pigeons of late and that he caught one of them (a white 
bird) a fevi? days ago,while on another occasion he frightened 
them so badly that the entire flock departed and were absent 
an entire day. Pat tells me that he alighted in one of the 
big elms that shade the house yesterday morning,when the 
Pigeons dashed into the barn and wood-shed, remaining there 
until the Hawk departed. 
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