Concord, Mass.
1907.
May & June
  In May of this year Charles Prescott telephoned
me that several Pheasants were frequenting his asparagus
bed which lies close to the railroad at the rear of
Sleepy Hollow Cemetery not far from Caesar's Woods. He had
seen or heard the birds in this neighborhood through
most of the spring and he thought there were at
least seven or eight of them.
Ring-neck Pheasants become established & common
   When early in June Mr. Forbush came to the 
cabin to spend the summer he heard Pheasants coming
on the opposite side of the meadows in the direction 
of Caesar's Woods. Later they were heard almost
daily, by him or by me, sometimes directly opposite
the cabin in McGrath's fields. They sometimes came
down to the edge of the meadow and on July 14th
Mr. Forbush saw one rise from the long grass on
the edge of our boat canal. He is very sure that
on two occasions in June he heard the crow of
a Pheasant from our farm barn in the direction
of the Ritchie place. It looks therefore as if the
birds have become established and rather common in
Concord, at least locally. Previous to the present
year they have been met with in this part of Concord
only singly and at wide intervals. My records are
as follows: - April, 1901; one seen almost daily during
the last week of this month by Hansen or by Bensen in
the field in front of our farm house. March 17, 1902; one
seen by Bensen in the field or over Ritchie Place. A male
seen in July of this year in Acton (? Herbert Holden),
January 1905: Hansen reports seeing a female several times
early in the month. This bird haunted the raspberry bushes
between our farm house & Bungalow. Feb. 4,1905. One seen on
the Ritchie place by Bensen.
It may be merely a coincidence in no way connected with this (?)
of Pheasants that Partridges have been scarcer the present season
than I have ever known them to be in Concord before. I have seen only
one brood of young & but very few adult birds, in our woods.