Concord.
Ther. [Thermometer] Mon. [Monday] Oct. 31, 1910 [October 31, 1910] Wea. [Weather]
20 [degrees] Fine
Brilliantly clear with light W. [West] to
S.W. [Southwest] wind. Early morning cold.
Middle of day warm.
  All the men worked close about
the house at various tasks, making
flower beds, pruning & cutting down
trees etc. Bensen cut a vista
through the line of trees at front of
slope below old barn. I was
with them much of time.
  Henry Henshaw found a Saw whet
Owl in the Barrett Run close to
the path that leads to Ritchie place
about 11 A.M. We all went down
to see it a number of times. Dexter
came at 3.30 & we then approached
it within 15 feet. I got behind it &
tried to catch it. I clutched at its
back but it opened its wings & I
could not hold it. We afterwards
followed it about flushing it three times
more after trying to catch it.

Concord.
Ther. [Thermometer] Tues. [Tuesday] Nov. 1, 1910 [November 1, 1910] Wea. [Weather]
25 [degrees] Fine
Clear, calm, early morning cold,
delightfully warm after 9 A.M.
  Henshaw & Purdie left me at
7.40 to return to Boston by 8.06 train.
E.R.S. [Elizabeth R. Simmons], Mrs. Cobb, Lizzy Fuller
and an English lady Mrs. 
sister of Mrs. Hans Gadow, arrived
at 11 A.M. in automobile from
Cambridge. I first showed them the
farm house and them took them
through the woods via Prescott pines
& Davis Hill to Ball's Hill where
they saw the cabins & where Gilbert
served them with coffee & crackers.
They departed about 1.30. I
spent afternoon with James, Harry
& Pat packing the boats away &
other things in order for the winter.
Flashed [flushed] a cock Pheasant on top of Ball's Hill.