Concord
Ther [ Thermometer]  SUN. APR. 6, 1913 [Sunday, April 6, 1913]  Wea [Weather] 
Dull
Clear at sunrise but cloudy through day
with snow squalls every 
now & then & a bitter wind
blowing out of the north; altogether 
a cheerless day with but little
sight or sound of bird life.
 I was out about the place
with the men planning for the
season's planting etc. in the 
forenoon. H.M. Spelman [Henry M. Spelman]
with his son & young Baker (of Cambridge)
came on bicycles at noon & 
spent half an hour. In
the afternoon I stayed
in doors & wrote a lot 
of letters. Flicker shouting,
[?] singing in early forenoon,
a Robin at [?] & [?].
A Fox Sparrow singing sotto voce.
Concord
Ther [Thermometer. MON. APRIL 7, 1913 [Monday, April 7, 1913] Wea [Weather]  
Stormy
  Cloudy with high raw N.W. [northwest] wind
and frequent brief but dense snow
falls, the snow coming at times in 
blinding gusts & whitening the ground
which, at day break, was snow covered
every where to a depth of almost an inch.
  Spent most of day in woods 
near Pulpit Rock working with Pat
& Zeph digging trees, chiefly balsams
& hemlocks. Few birds seen or 
heard there. S.O. Dexter [Smith Owen Dexter] came down
at noon to dine with me. We sat
long by the fire, talking. About 4 P.M.
we saw a [male] Marsh Hawk pounce
down into bushes in Berry Pasture.
Found there a dead Rabbit with 
much flesh eaten [cf. journal]
 At 6 P.M. saw a Fish Hawk
flying low, over Birch Field and 
Pulpit Rock pine woods.
















