Wea. [Weather] Sat. [Saturday] April 1, 1905 Ther. [Thermometer]
52 [degrees]
  Clear & cooler with strong
N.W. [northwest] wind.
  Worked most of the day with Pat
cleaning up wood shack. Walked
twice to Ritchie place & over to 
Prescott's pines. A lot of Fox
Sparrows & Juncos about. Heard
a Grass Finch sing & a Tree Swallow 
twitter. A good many Song Sp. [song sparrows]
& Juncos but only a few Robins.
James has hired a [?]
man who began to-day.
  Wea. [Weather] Sunday 2 [April 2, 1905] Ther. [Thermometer]
28 [degrees]
44 [degrees]
  Clear & cold with raging
N.W. [northwest] wind.
  Out all day. Spent A.M. 
in Birch Field laying out a new
wood road. To Ball's Hill in
P.M. Nobody there or on the
river. Hepatica buds showing.
Pussy willows in pearly gray stage &
very conspicuous & handsome.
  Heard a Gr. Horned Owl [Great Horned Owl] hooting
in Prescott pines about 4 P.M.
Wea. [Weather] Mon. [Monday] April 3, 1905 Ther. [Thermometer]
26 [degrees]
58 [degrees]
  Clear with strong N.W. [northwest] wind.
  Worked alone all day. In A.M. on
the wood road begun yesterday at Birch
Field, in P.M. in woods behind Ritchie's place.
Fox sparrows still numerous & singing well.
At evening saw a hen Partridge sitting
erect & still in a poplar by roadside
near Ritchie's place. A Woodcock began
peeping about 6.30 in Berry pasture. Saw
him rise to sing. A single Hylas (the first)
peeping at evening. Several Wood Frogs (the
firsts) croaking about 5 P.M. The fields
[?] green to-day.
  Wea. [Weather] Tuesday 4 [April 4, 1905] Ther. [Thermometer]
32 [degrees]
55 [degrees]
  Cloudy with S.E. [southeast] wind & light
rain in early morning. Warmer
seeming but not really so warm as yesterday.
  Spent day on farm working in
the woods near Pulpit Rock in A.M.
behind Ritchie place in P.M.
Arrivals:- Carolina Dove 1 [in full song] , Field
Sparrow 1 [in full song], Pine Warbler [male] (Gilbert)
in apple orchard behind house.
  Glorious concert of Fox Sparrows in
A.M. Robins singing freely at evening.
Wood Frogs out in force croaking
lustily. No Hylas to-day.