. Birds of Massachusetts and other New England states. Birds; Birds. 184 BIRDS OF MASSACHUSETTS resident elsewhere. Rhode Island: Common migrant and common to rare local summer resident. Connecticut: Common migrant and uncommon to rare local summer resident; chiefly coastwise and in Connecticut Valley. Season in Massachusetts. — (March 7 to 16) April 2 to May 31; (summer) July 31 to November 28 (December 15). Haunts and Habits. The Osprey is one of the few large birds that is still a familiar sight to the inhabitants of New England, but it has decreased greatly in recent times. There is every
. Birds of Massachusetts and other New England states. Birds; Birds. 184 BIRDS OF MASSACHUSETTS resident elsewhere. Rhode Island: Common migrant and common to rare local summer resident. Connecticut: Common migrant and uncommon to rare local summer resident; chiefly coastwise and in Connecticut Valley. Season in Massachusetts. — (March 7 to 16) April 2 to May 31; (summer) July 31 to November 28 (December 15). Haunts and Habits. The Osprey is one of the few large birds that is still a familiar sight to the inhabitants of New England, but it has decreased greatly in recent times. There is every reason to believe that it was once a common breeding bird along the whole coast of New England and locally in the interior. It breeds commonly now only OSPREY •BREEDING A MIO-RATION. Recent Records of the Osprey in Massachusetts where it is protected. In such cases it assem- bles in colonies, as on the border of Bristol County, Massachusetts, near the village of Touisset in Swansea and the adjoining town of Warren, Rhode Island, where the farmers pro- tect the species. It seems that while these birds are incubating their eggs and rearing their KET young, they will not allow other hawks in the vicinity of their nests, and, as the young chickens are allowed to run at large at that season, the Ospreys protect the chickens from the forays of other hawks. For this reason the farmer desires to have a pair of Fish-hawks nesting as near the farm-yard as possible. Here and there someone has erected a tall pole in the dooryard with a cart- wheel fixed horizontally across its top. This makes a convenient and safe location of which the Osprey is not slow to take advantage. When I first visited this colony in 1900, there were apparently about 75 nests scattered over the two townships though some of them may have been within the boundaries of Bristol, Rhode Island; probably the col- ony has decreased since that time. The region lies along the shores of Narraganset Bay and its estuaries w
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