1893
April 2
(No 6)
Concord, Mass.
  Although we started no Partridges during our rambles
we saw their droppings, many of which were apparently
quite fresh, in extrordinary abundance throughout my
woods. In one place a bird had evidently passed the
night on the ground in the middle of a foot path
probably under the snow which had afterwards melted. The
droppings lay in circular heap of about the size and shape
of an inverted tea-cup. The number of droppings which 
a single Partridge will deposit in one night is simply
remarkable. 
[margin]Ruffed 
Grouse[/margin]
  George Holden who paid us a visit at about noon told
me that he saw a bevy of seven Quail on the road
near his father's house just before the last great snow
storm and several days afterwards he noticed their
tracks near the same spot. He thinks that they
probably survived the deep snows of February but
neither he nor anyone else with whom I have talked here has
actually seen any Quail since the snow melted.
[margin]Quail[/margin]
  Mr. Buttrick reports seeing two very large flocks of
Canada Geese passing northward at about 8.30 yesterday
(April 1) morning. These flocks were less than half-a-mile
apart and were of approximately equal size each 
containing fully 100 birds. Two hundred Geese in sight
at once is a rare spectacle in these days.
[margin]Geese[/margin]
  Still no Flickers! What can have become of
them? The total absence of their shouting calls is a
sad lack [delete]feature of[/delete] these early spring days.
[margin]Colaptes
still
missing.[/margin]