March 27.
Saw a hawk -- probably marsh hawk -- by meadow.
H. D. Thoreau, Journal, March 27, 1854
Saw a hawk -- probably marsh hawk -- by meadow. See
March 27, 1855 ("See my frog hawk. . . . It is the hen-harrier, i.e. marsh hawk, male. Slate-colored; beating the bush; black tips to wings and white rump");
March 17, 1860 (" Was not that a marsh hawk, a slate-colored one which I saw flying over Walden Wood with long, slender, curving wings, with a diving, zigzag flight? ");
March 21, 1859 ("I see a female marsh hawk sailing and hunting over Potter's Swamp. I not only see the white rump but the very peculiar crescent-shaped curve of its wings.");
Marsh 24, 1860 (". I see a male frog hawk beating a hedge, scarcely rising more than two feet from the ground for half a mile."); March 29, 1853 (" I believe I saw the slate-colored marsh hawk to-day. ");
March 29, 1854 ("See two marsh hawks, white on rump.") See also
A Book of the Seasons, by Henry Thoreau,
the Marsh Hawk (Northern Harrier)
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