Concord.
Ther. [Themometer] Thurs. [Thursday] Oct. 19, 1911 [October 19, 1911] Wea. [Weather]
Dull.
Cloudy with fine mist-like
rain at intervals. Strong N.E. [Northeast] wind.
  Spent most of day with Zeph
cutting down trees and preparing
logs for the roof of the new
shed next the canoe vault.
Hosmer & our men worked
on the timbers all afternoon.
Zeph drew them from woods 
behind hill with our horse.
Very few small birds about. 
Two Black-polls near cabin.
Heard a Red-winged Blackbird
& a Snipe across river at evening.
Also the whistling of duck's wings
A Red-shouldered Hawk perched 
on pole that I put up in meadow
east of hill only two days ago.
Saw the old [male] Marsh Hawk
beating over this meadow.

Concord.
Ther. [Themometer] Fri. [Friday] Oct. 20, 1911 [October 20, 1911] Wea. [Weather]
Dull.
Mostly cloudy with occasional
glympses of blue sky & a few short
intervals of bright warm sunshine
but with the wind still north-east.
  In forenoon Zeph & I went to Prescott's
pines & cut a lot of straight young 
poplars. These Hosmer used for roof
timbers for new shed at Ball's Hill
getting them all in place and about
half the boarding on before night. Zeph
helped by putting in some huge pieces
of pine trunks under the outer rafters.
  I worked with Pat part of P.M.
Hardly any birds about during day
but at evening I found a great number
of Juncos going to roost in Pine Park.
They were flittering & cheeping all over
the place with others arriving every moment.
Here too I saw a budding Partridge
fly from the big poplar behind the shed
& a little later, as the light was falling, 
a Great Blue Heron passed high overhead
wing [winging] his way southward with hoarse calls.
[margin] Saw a solitary Cedar Bird perched in top of lone elm by cart path through Bensen's field.[/margin]