Concord, Mass.
1911.
March 14
[March 14, 1911]

  Clear, calm; very mild through day but cold last night.

Bluebirds, Chickadees & Nuthatch singing
Robins arrive & scatter over fields.

  Bluebirds and Chickadees were singing on every hand in
the early morning & our Nuthatch was wot-wot-wot-ing. I
[neither] saw nor heard any Song Sparrows or Fox Sparrow or Blackbirds,
all of which should be here. Pat Fleming reported seeing
about a dozen Robins scattered about over the fields between
here and Concord as he worked down this morning. At 1 P.M.
I saw five in our orchard. I believe all these Robins
to be our local birds which have just come up from
the South but there is no certainty that such is the case[.]

Partridge in barberry bush in front of our house.

  One of the men started a Partridge early this morning
from the line of barberry bushes directly in front of the
farm house & within twenty yards of my windows. The
bird followed the road for some distance when it flew 
off. There are plenty of berries still clinging to the bushes.