1902.
May 13
(No 2)
  I saw another Creeper collecting grape vine bark for
her nest at about noon to-day, directly in front
of the cabin. She flew several times to the foot of
a cluster of oak sprouts near the base of the hill.
  A female Downy Woodpecker flew from a poplar
stub at the west end of Ball's Hill as I was passing.
I could see a fresh and very neat-looking hole near
the top of the stub but it was too high up to be
easily investigated without a ladder.
  On a ridge covered with dense second growth oaks
between the Green Field and Birch Island I started
a female Partridge. Although she rose in the usual manner
and at a distance of fully twenty yards I somehow
felt instantly that she had flown from her nest
which proved to be the case. The nest was at the
foot of a small oak and was simply a hollow lined
with dry oak leaves. It contained 11 fresh-looking eggs.
It was near the middle of one of the densest covers
in this neighborhood & remote from any path or
opening.
  Shortly after sunset this evening I heard the creaking
calls of Eave Swallows at the farm & looking up saw
31 of these birds flying in a compact flock like Blackbirds
& at a considerable height. After circling once or twice
they went off rapidly in a straight course towards
the north-east. Were they migrating or making
for some distant roost?
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