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we crossed Shenandoah Mt again stopping to go up Ramseys Draft to a beautiful stand of Hemlock, White Oak, Tulip & Red Oak. Saw a number of trout in this stream which is nicknamed draft. Saw nutchellia repeus with lots of berries & found considerably more willow. Saw following in bloom today, Amelaudlier, Maple (Red flowered), Willow, Cottonwood, Witch hazel, Spice bush [[underline]] Pieris [[/underline]] (andromeda) [[underline]] florebunda, [[/underline]], Hepatica, Trailing Arbutus, Sanguinica Canadensis, Housatonia or Bluets and a yellow Violet. None plentiful except Spice bush (full bloom), witch hazel past its best & Pieris becoming quite stony. Birds were scarce in the timber and only Robins, Pronged grackles, Starlings & Bluebirds common elsewhere. Forsythia & Narcissus in bloom in Harrisonburg. 1. Wild Turkey 1 gobbler 2. Ruffed grouse 2 3. Crow Several 4. Bronzed grackle c in open 5. Starling [[ #s 1-5 are encircled]] 6. Meadowlark 2 7. Pileated Woodpecker 1 8. Flicker 2 .-1 9. Phoebe 2 10. Carolinea Junco (c) 11. Chickadee 80 12. Vesper Sparrow 1 13. Field " [[ditto for Sparrow]] 2 14. Purple Finch 1 15. Beurichs Wren 1 16. Kingfisher 1 17. Robin (c) 18. Bluebird (C) 19. White rumped [[Sluitre?]] 1 20. Mockingbird 1 21. English Sparrow sev) 22. About 100 miles in car hiked about 3 miles