Concord. April 15, 1904.
  Brilliantly clear in A.M. with strong 
cold N.W. [northwest] wind. Clouds gathering in P.M. &
light rain at evening with N.E. [northeast] wind.
  Spent entire day at Ritchie place
planting cedars and barberry bushes about
the apple cellar.
  To Birch Field at evening. Saw a Hermit 
thrush. Returning heard a Screech Owl making 
the raking call in the orchard. Saw him fly
twice. Gilbert went to Boston & brought Larry here
in the late P.M.