CONCOED 
1911 
March 19 
Spring-like 
morning 
First 
Bluebirds 
First 
Song Sparrow 
Robins 
Pheasant 
But eo 
lineatus 
Holden's Hill 
Ruffed 
Grouse 
drumming 
Creeper sings 
JMost of the day has been cloudy with chill South¬ 
east wind and it is snowing hard this evening, but the 
early morning was delightful and the most spring-like 
one thus far this jear. The sun shone bright and warm, 
quickly melting the hoar frost that had gathered over night 
and up to about ten o'clock there was little or no wind. 
Bluebirds were warbling far and near in every direction, 
Chickadees making the phoebe call, a Nuthatch root-root- 
root- ing near the house, a Downy drumming (for the first 
time) in the big elm, Crows cawing and Blue Jays screaming 
in the distance. I started for Ball's Hill about 8.30. 
Heard my first Song Sparrow in the bushy ground 
near Mr. Harris' hen-house. Came upon six Robins and a 
Junco in his lane and heard a Pheasant crowing in the meadow 
to which it leads. On reaching Holden's Hill, heard two 
Red-shouldered Hawks screaming wild and shrill and soon saw 
them, one(female) soaring high, the other (male) perched 
in a dead pine. & moment later they were answered by a 
third in the direction of Ball's Hill. Then a Ruffed Grouse 
drummed apparently on the east flank of Holden’s Hill and 
a Tree Creeper sang once, full and clear, in the big oaks 
near me. Next I heard the silvery whistle of wings and 
looking up saw a pair of Black Ducks circling low over the 
woods. They alighted in the river at the head of the 
Ej^ck. Ducks 
