1907
May 1
  Forenoon cloudy, afternoon brilliantly clear. A cool
but light N.W. wind blew all day.
  Arrivals. Bank Swallow, heard at Ball's Hill; Least
Flycatcher, call note heard at Farm; Upland Plover, heard at
Ball's Hill; Greater Yellow Legs, flock of 18 passed Ball's Hill.
Arrivals
  About 7 A.M. as I was standing in front of
the cabin I heard the flight call of an Upland
Plover repeated six times. Each utterance consisted of
four of the usual rapidly enunciated notes (there
are often but three). The bird was apparently flying
high towards the East.
Upland Plover
  About 10 A.M. I heard two prolonged rolling
call that the Greater Yellow-Legs give just before
alighting. Early in the afternoon I heard it again
and this time saw the birds, 18 in number, flying
in a compact flock (as closely bunched as Peeps)
low over the water, up river, past Ball's Hill.
Greater Yellow legs
 Two Kingfishers passed the cabin many times
during the day, one sometimes in close pursuit
of the other. I took them to be a pair but this
was only surmise for I could not see their markings.
One of them gave the harsh cac, cac, cac, cac,cac.
which is very unlike the rattle & not often heard.
It was flying over the wood at the time.
Kingfishers
  A Partridge was drumming behind Ball's Hill
early this morning, not on the stone wall but further
inland & not far, I thought, from the larch plantation.
Partridge drumming