Lake Umbagog. Broad-winged Hawks are far more numerous here this spring than I have ever known them to be in former years. They haunt the lake shore, probably to prey on the common Toads, which are now singing and spawning in the lake in simply incredible numbers. The Broad-wing is by all odds the most sluggish and the tamest of our Falconidae. A pair which haunt our cove spend most of their time perched on stubs near our boat. They soar and scream frequently but only just above the tops of the trees and but for a few minutes at a time. Most of the Hawks of this species that I have met with here this year have shown little or no fear of us, permitting me to approach them within 20 yards or less. They seem invariably make a loud fluttering sound when they take wing. They perch low down over the water when w watching for prey. I hear only the killdeer note. 1909 June 11 (No 5) Broad-winged Hawks.