Concord, Mass.
1902
March 9
  Cloudy with S.E. wind and light but steady rain
beginning about 9 A.M. and lasting until night. The
ground is still nearly everywhere covered with snow to a
depth of five or six inches.
  I came to Concord late yesterday afternoon and spent
last night and most of to-day at the farm returning
to Cambridge late this afternoon. The weather was
so bad and the walking so difficult that I did not
get into the woods. A few Chickadees appeared about
the house in the afternoon and I heard Jays screaming
in the distance. The only birds seen on the drive
to Concord were a Crow an a flock of seven Robins.
  When I was at the farm a week ago my foreman,
Christian Hansen, told me that he had seen five
Partridges the evening before (that of March 1) in a wild
apple tree that stands within about thirty yards of the
barn just beyond the big elm. Gilbert saw four there
and a fifth in another apple tree near by, last evening,
soon after six o'clock, but they also saw him and flew
off in quick succession a few moments later.
  He called me this morning to say that
they were again in the tree near the barn. I went
into the east chamber of the farm house where I
had an excellent view of them. At first I could
make out only four or five but before many
minutes had passed I counted no less than nine
scattered all over the tree, a few low down on large
branches near the main trunk but the greater 
number among the smaller twigs near the ends of
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