Concord, Mass.
1912.
May 21 
(No 2)
[May 21, 1912]

Partridge nest, 11 eggs.
Hen Partridge whines as she rises
on wing from nest with eggs.

  Shortly before noon today I was standing under some pines
at the north-east end of the swamp at the east of Ball's Hill 
watching some Warblers flitting about in the swamp. Among 
them was the Bay breast already mentioned. I had been
there quite motionless for several minutes with my glass glued 
to my eyes and had just taken it down for an instant when 
a hen partridge flushed from an edge of the swamp about 
30 fleet from where I stood rising heavily with a noisy fluttering 
and making repeatedly, as she flew slowly off, the whistling sound 
given by mother birds of this species when disturbed with their 
newly hatched broods. Advancing a few steps I saw almost 
immediately her nest which contained 11 uncovered eggs. It 
was near the foot of a large white pine in the very 
middle of a tangle of bull briar [Bullbriar]. Never before have I known 
a Partridge whine except when she had young. A cock has been 
drumming for weeks past about 200 yds. [yards] from the nest on the back
slope of Ball's Hill. There was a nest last year on the Ball's Hill side
 of the swamp & two there within 30 yds. [yards] of each other in 1910.