Concord (Farm)
Ther [Thermometer] Monday, Oct. 11, 1915 [October 11, 1915] Wea [Weather]
First ice Perfect
Brilliantly clear with light
westerly wind. Fields snowy white
with hoar frost at sunrise. My
Zinnias coated with clear ice from
the spray played on them over
night which saved them from all
harm. Midday hours deliciously 
warm. Altogether a nearly perfect
day, even for October.
  Spent entire day picking apples
mostly Northern Spies of gigantic
size & great beauty. Lots of birds
in orchard. Fully 50 Juncos, a
dozen or more Chippies [Chipping Sparrow], a few
White-throats [White-throated Sparrow] in the millet there.
Two Yellow Palm Warblers & a
Nashville [Nashville Warbler] with very yellow breast
in the apple trees.
  Henry [Henry W. Henshaw] practised golf in Bensen's
pasture morning & afternoon, In
late P.M. Burbank & I tramped
around the outskirts of our woods
putting up trespass signs. Timmy
caught a hen & pulled her tail out.

Concord (Farm)
Ther [Thermometer] Tuesday, Oct. 12, 1915 [October 12, 1915] Wea [Weather]
Rarely perfect.
Brilliantly clear & deliciously warm
with fresh S.W. [southwest] wind.
  Opening day of shooting season.
Guns popping briskly in all directions
at sunrise & not infrequently through
day although I heard them much
less often than a year ago and only
two shots were fired in our
neighborhood - somewhere beyond the
Berry Pasture, they seemed.
  Gilbert [Robert A. Gilbert] arrived from Cambridge at
9 A.M. bringing the Mus. Comp. Zool. [Museum of Comparative Zoology]
accession book. Culling my data
from it I worked all day long
on my report, getting it written
roughly by sundown when Timmy
& I had a short woodland walk.
The men picked & boxed Baldwin
apples. George worked through A.M.,
Zeph all day. Monson & Casper did
not come either yesterday or to-day.
Starting at 10.45 Gilbert motored
Henry [Henry W. Henshaw] first to Westboro, then to Wellesley,
to see his sisters. They were back by 5.