Concord.
Ther. Thermometer] FRI. [Friday] OCT. 29, 1909 [October 29, 1909] Wea. [Weather]
31 [degrees] min [minimum] Fine
Clear & cool with violent N.W. [Northwest] wind.
Spent day on the Farm
superintending the work of three
men. Pat prepared beds for bulbs,
James & Bensen picked over
apples in the barn. I covered
up some of my flower beds with
pine boughs. Saw a large flock
of Juncos in the orchard & a
dozen Robins in the lane. A little
before sunset I flushed a Partridge
from an apple tree within 30 yds. [yards]
of our barn. No doubt she was budding
About this time I saw two Hermit
Thrushes feeding on the berries of a 
Rhus glabra clinging to the crimson head.
At 4.30 Henshaw Purdie & I started 
out for walk taking Larry. We
went to Birch Island where we
flushed a Partridge. Wild cloud effects
at sunset.

Concord.
Ther. [Thermometer] SAT. [Saturday] OCT. 30, 1909 [October 30, 1909] Wea. [Weather]
Glorious.
Brilliantly clear & bracingly cool
with strong N.W. [Northwest] wind.
  This, my last working, day here was
all too short for attending to the various
small but necessary last things that had to 
be done before leaving the place for the winter.
We planted a quantity of bulbs, put 
up the storm doors on the shed,
hauled the last loads of wood, etc.
The Chipmunks dug up all my tulips
& hyacinths last July. Before that they
had taken only crocuses & squills. Today
they carried off several tulip bulbs that
we had laid out to plant. I shot one
of them with my gun cane. There were
almost no birds about the house but
Purdie found Birch Field swarming with
Juncos in A.M.  I went there with him
about sunset & saw a Tree Sparrow & a
Fox Sparrow besides many Juncos.