1906 
May 7 
  Early morning rainy. Most of day cloudy clearing at sunset. Ther 47 degrees - 63 degrees.
  Blackburnian Warbler male in full song in big elms in our dooryard 5 P.M. Sang only once.
Arrival.
  Nest of Ruffed Grouse, 8 eggs, North end Pulpit Rock woods 4.30 P.M. 
Nests.
 Nest of Grass Finch 3 eggs, Green Field. Found by Purdie May 1. 2 eggs then
  Birds were scattered about all over the place and singing
freely when I walked to the Ritchie place and to the Berry Pasture
about 9 A.M. Many of them noted yesterday and day before yesterday
were missing to-day and it was evident that few if any
new ones had arrived during the night. In fact I do not think
that there has been any arrival of migrants to amount to anything
since the 6th although the Wood Thrushes probably did not reach
here until yesterday morning. At evening (about 5 P.M.) a small
number of Warblers (perhaps a dozen) had collected to feed in
the elms and apple trees near our house. Among them I noted
the Blackburnian. The others were chiefly Yellow rumps, Black-throated
Greens, Parulas, and Nashvilles.
  Puridie and I found the Partridge's nest in the extreme
northern end of Pulpit Rock woods. It was in very open woods at
the base of a large white pine within six feet of Lawrence's wood road
which is traversed occasionally by teams & frequently by dogs and men.
The bird flushed ten yards away rising strongly directly from the nest
& flying straight away. The cock Grouse has been drumming for a 
week or more in oak scrub about 150 yards east of the nest. We
heard him there to-day just before we found the nest.
  Purdie showed me his Vesper Sparrows' nest in Green Field.
I saw the female before she left her 3 eggs. She sat absolutely motionless
with head raised. When I advanced my foot to within a yard of
her she ran a few yards & then took wing. The males have nearly
finished the first period of singing & I hear them but seldom now.