1906
May 3
  Clear with high N.W. wind. Ther. 48 degrees min. 70 degrees max.
  Oven bird. male in full song Heard at evening near Ritchie place
Arrival.
May 4  
  Clear with strong N.W. wind. Ther. 32 degrees min. 66 degrees max.
  Usnea Warbler male in full song Heard near house in elm at about 8 A.M.
  Bats. Four in wood shed this morning. They may have come
a little earlier for I had not looked for them for the past three days.
Arrivals
  Twelve White-throated Sparrows spent most of the
day on the ground under the dining room windows where we
scatter hemp seed nearly every morning. They remained here for
hours at a time and when not feeding stood or crouched
in the short grass keeping perfectly motionless with their
heads raised. The white stripes on their crowns evidently
made them less, instead of more, conspicuous. More
than half of them were in fully mature plumage. They
sang a good deal but without much spirit, even in
the early morning. When searching for the hemp seeds
they often scratched a little after the manner of 
Fox Sparrows, that is by first jumping forward and then
backward. I have seen Juncos and Song Sparrows do
precisely the same thing here this spring but no one
of these birds scratches nearly as often or as vigorously 
as does the Fox Sparrow. The Song Sparrows and 
Juncos both walk a good deal with a pretty (?)
gait.