1906 
May 5
  Cloudy and very warm with heavy thunder in the
distance in the afternoon. Scarce a breath of wind all
day. The air sweet with the fragrance of blossoming cherry
and plum trees. Most of the forest trees and shrubs still
perfectly leafless but apple trees and lilacs green with
young foliage. Vegetation adavances rapidly through the
day. A few shad bushes in full bloom by evening. Elms
slightly green & still loaded with spent blossoms.
  Yellow Warbler male in full song in apple tree in garden at 8 A.M.
  Chestnut sided Warbler male in full song in Barrett Run about 9 A.M.
  Redstart. male adult in full song in oak green behind farm about 8 A.M.
  Maryland Yellow-throat. male in full song in Berry Pasture at 6 A.M. & through day.
  Red-eyed Vireo. male in full song in elms over road at noon. Seen at close range later.
  Yellow-throated Vireo male in elm near house at 11 A.M. Song once fully.
  Scarlet Tanager. - male in full song in big elm about 2 P.M.
  Rose-breasted Grosbeak male in full song in elm 2 P.M. 2 males in a flock seen in elms over road later.
  Bobolink. - One in full song over house at 11 A.M. Another heard later.
  Baltimore Oriole. - One heard at 6 A.M. & through the day was the
same bird that has bred here for years. Another, that
sang for half an hour about noon in the elm over shed
was a stranger bird with an odd & unfamiliar song. 
  Crested Flycatcher. A silent bird in the near house at 9 A.M.
One, probably the same, heard in orchard and at 
Pulpit Rock later in day.
  Whippoorwill. Two singing at evening; over west of house, one north west.
  Broad-winged Hawk. male adult seen flying over field in front of house
at 9 A.M. carrying something in his talons. He alighted
in the big hickory on edge of run. I approached within 30 yards & watched
him tear up & devour his prey. It proved to be a female Toad. Her
spawn was smeared all over the limb. Beneath it I found a male Toad
alive but partly paralyzed. I think the Hawk had seized a pair 
of Toads as they were copulating. I saw him fly over the field & alight by our 
pond an hour later.