- April 27- Miss Alexander and I went after gronce this morning. We got one reed away up on the hillside and after a hard climb three devil clubs and snow banks we got up to where we could looks out me to the tree. I finally located the "shooter" away up in the tops of a big spruce tree. He was sitting on a bunch of moss and with the aid of the glasses we could watch him looking at us. The sun shone on him and we could see him swell out his neck and bob his head when he would shoot. We watched him for quite awhile there pulled him down with a charge of no. 4. He weighed just 4 lbs. On the way back I saw a Townsend Sparrow with a feather in her mouth. The & came up and they both flew away. I took after them but followed the & by mistake and pretty soon the & came back. I took a line in the direction that the & went and soon found the nest It was just being lined.