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Ther [Thermometer] MON. MAR.17, 1913 [Monday, March 17, 1913] Wea [Weather] 
Fine
  Clear & cold with blustering
N.W. [northwest] wind. Ground hard frozen
at sunrise but muddy at noon.
Birds severely silent. Heard no
singing whatever. Pheasant [crowed?]
once. Smaller birds very scarce.
No Sparrow migration of any
amount as yet. No Jays or
Nuthatches & almost no Chickadees
& very few Crows. Stranger the
Fox Sparrows have not come. The
country looks quite ready for them.
  Spent most of day about Farm
directing men. Pierce & 3 men 
cutting browntails, near barn, Pat &
George ditto in Berry Pasture, Bensen
& his boy laying up stone [?].
  In late P.M. I rambled through
woods along river starting five
or six Partridges there.
Concord.
Ther [Thermometer] TUES. MAR.18, 1913 [Tuesday, March 18. 1913] Wea [Weather]
Fine
Brilliantly clear & bracingly cold
despite the strong sunlight & a high
southwest wind. Ground hard frozen
up to 10 A.M. 
  Heard singing near house at 8 a.m.
2 Chickadees, a Nuthatch, Red-wings [Red-winged Blackbird]
& a Meadow Lark [Meadowlark] (in [?] field).
A Bluebird singing well at sunset.
Where are all the Sparrows? I
saw none today & heard but an
- a Junco twittering. The pond
below our orchard has been open
most of the time since Saturday
but no Woods Frogs have been heard
there. Altogether the season seems
abnormally lifeless thus far.
  Spent most of day directing
work of the men especially
Bensen & Zeph on new roadway
along hillsides below orchard.