1909
May 13
Concord, Mass.
Clear & warm with fresh west wind.
At intervals through the past spring I have started
a hen Partridge on or near Ball's Hill. On its north side
or rather base, next the swamp, Pat flushed her from her
nest this morning. It was under a spreading mountain laurel
that I planted and contained six eggs. [These were all I saw but Gilbert counted eleven the next day] Strange to say I
had heard no cock bird drumming song when in the neighborhood
of the hill this year nor have I seen one there. If I
remember rightly the same thing happened there several years 
ago yet the hen hatched & reared her brood. The old
drumming stand on the stone wall near the big red
maple has not been used by Partridges for a number of years.
Nest of Partridge
  Found fresh tracks of a Mongolian Pheasant to-day
in an open, sandy place in Pine Park. Heard one crow
across the river on the morning of the 11th.
Pheasant.