CONCORD 
1909 
Marin 27 
£1 Robin, a Song Sparrow and a Flicker were singing- 
near the house at sunrise. Later I heard Chickadees and a 
3^Pds 
Bluebird or two. About 4 P. M. a Fox Sparrow began singing 
gloriously in the forsythia bushes in front of the house. 
Shortly after this he came on the banking under the parlor 
A single 
Fox 
Sparrow 
arrives 
at the 
Farm 
windows where he spent nearly half an hour eating hemp seed 
that we keep there. He seemed to be a solitary bird and he 
must have come more or less for this afternoon, for I was out 
of doors the entire forenoon, near the house, and should 
certainly have seen or heard him had he been here then,' - ’ 
Pair of 
While in the orchard this afternoon I saw a pair of 
Buteo 
lineatus 
Red-shouldered Hawks pass overhead at an immense height (at 
feet 
least 1000 art.). They were moving north-west in a perfectly 
gliding 
straight course, on a level plane, one following in the wake 
at great 
of the other at a distance of about 100 yards, the male 
height 
leading the way. Their wings were set and strongly bowed 
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as long as I had the birds in sight, yet they glided on 
without effort and seemingly without inclining downward in 
the least, for a distance of fully a mile, progressing very 
slowly, however. I have often seen large Hawks do this 
very thing before and to my mind it (is}the most majestic 
and impressive of their many different forms of flight. The 
wings look broader than at other times and there is some¬ 
thing unusual and peculiar in the way they are held. 
