Concord (Farm)
Ther [Thermometer] Sunday Oct. 17, 1915 [October 17, 1915] Wea [Weather] 
Perfect.
Another divinely perfect Indian
summer day closely like yesterday
but with somewhat fresher &
cooler wind, mostly from N.W. [northwest]
  Spent almost entire day in woods
rambling about slowly with Timmy,
drinking in the exquisite beauty of
the richly painted maple & hickory
foliage and watching birds of various
kinds. There was a prodigious flight
of Juncos -  hundreds of them feeding
almost altogether in the tops of gray
birches & on the seeds of those trees,
twittering softly & every now & then giving
the song trill. I saw them literally
everywhere among the birches in Cedar Park
& Birch Field, often a dozen in one tree.
With them were many Yellow rumps [Yellow-rumped Warbler] &
a few Black-polls [Blackpoll Warbler]. Heard no less than 4
Ruby-crowns [Ruby-crowned Kinglet] singing, one in lane, another
in Cedar Park, the other two in Birch Field
One was in almost full song.
Started 2 Partridges in lane & 3 in Birch F. [Birch Field]
Flushed a Cock Pheasant at sunset
on slope below barn. He looked as big 
as a Turkey. Gray Squirrels out in
force. Chipmunks, also. Reds [Red Squirrel] common.

Concord (Farm & Hildeth's Corner)
Ther [Thermometer] Monday Oct. 18, 1915 [October 18, 1915] Wea [Weather] 
Fine
Still another Indian Summer day
less perfect than yesterday, however,
because chilly at morn & eve and
with the sky thinly overcast at times
by fleecy clouds. A rather fresh S.E. [southeast]
wind dislodged myriads of ripened
leaves and drove them across
fields & forest openings in clouds
like flocks of gaily-colored little
birds. Of real bird life there
was decidly [decidedly] less in evidence than
yesterday although Juncos rose 
by dozens if not scores when
I crossed our millet patch &
several White-throats flitted about
the grape trellis's while there were
more or less Robins scattered along
the lane & one singing freely & rather
well every now & then.
Monson saw 50+ Geese at 12:30 nooon
  Spent most of forenoon with Zeph
cutting down poplars in Cow lane.
Motored to Hildrith's Corner after
dinner to get a stone bearing imprints
of what look like Moose tracks. Charles
Carter dug it up in his place. He
[margin] wishes me to sell it for a good price if possible if not to keep it
as a gift from him[/margin]