1906.
April 8
  Clear and, for the season, cold with high, keen N. W. to
N. E. winds. 
  At sunrise a Phoebee was in full song near the house.
I saw him later in the day in the locusts and also about
the barn. I think he must have come last night.
  Yesterday we scattered a great quantity of millet and
grass seed over the ground at the rear of the house. As
I had hoped would be the case it has already attracted
a number of Fringillid birds. There were fifteen or more
Juncos, at least two and I think three or four Fox
Sparrows and several Song Sparrows feeding on the suet
this morning. The Fox Sparrows treat me to several glorious
bursts of their wild, rich music. Song Sparrows were
singing everywhere. Bluebirds seem scarce. I heard only one
to-day. A Purple Finch flew over the orchard calling.
Red-shouldered Hawks screaming in the distance.
  Last night about eleven o'clock I was awakened from
a sound sleep by the hooting of a Barred Owl, the first
I ever heard here. At first, when still but half-awake, I
took it for the tooting of a locomotive. The bird was very
near at hand & I think in one of the elms, by the road,
just below the house. I heard him five or six times. He gave
only the terminal half of the full hoot ie hoo-hoo, hoo-hooa-a.
It was a clear night with a nearly full moon.
  A Crow perched on the topmost spray of a pine made a
rattling noise closely like that a watchman's rattle turned
slowly. He kept twitching the tips of his wings nervously as he watched me.