Concord.
Ther [Thermometer] TUES. APRIL 8, 1913 [Tuesday, April 8, 1913] Wea [Weather]
Weasel & musk-rats           Fine
Brilliantly clear with cold N.W. [ northwest] wind.
Ground frozen & ponds iced all day long.
  Spent forenoon in cedars, foot
of [lawn?], working with Pat & Zeph.
 Cut down a lot of big birches &
grabbed up brush along new road.
Saw Fish Hawk soaring low &
heard Coopers Hawk barking.
 Gilbert [Robert Alexander Gilbert] moved our things to Ball's
Hill at 10 A.M. I walked down
at noon. Saw a weasel as big &
red as a Red Squirrel (for which I
at first mistook it) in wall where 
our cart road enters Pulpit Rock
woods from the farm. Dined at
Cabin. About 1 P.M. heard musk rats 
in floating boat house & presently
saw two copulating there in the
water as they [seem?] to [?].
Spent most of P.M. planting hemlocks,
balsams & cedars dug at Farm.
 Saw Kingfisher, Fish Hawk & 2 Gulls.
Dr & Mrs [?] with Raymond
called on me at cabin at 4 P.M.
Concord - Cambridge - Boston -
Ther [Thermometer] WED. APRIL 9, 1913 [Wednesday, April 9, 1913] Wea [Weather]
Clear & cold with high N.W [northwest] wind.
Ground hard frozen at sunrise.
 Took 6.06 A.M. train from W. Bedford [West Bedford].
Fish Hawk soaring over river as we
crossed it. Tree Sparrow singing wild
& sweet notes in [?] [?] near station.
Reached home at 9, changed clothes & 
drove to Museum Comp. Zool. [Museum of Comparative Zoology] where I
spent forenoon with Henshaw, [?]
& Bangs. Overseer visitors expected but 
none came. Back to home at 1.
4 Fox Sparrows, 1 white-throat [White-throated Sparrow] & 1
Song Sparrow, a Flicker, a Jay &
several Crow Blackbirds, in Garden.
Meeting Aud. Soc. Directors [Audubon Society Directors] at Mrs.
Elliott's 4 - 5.30 . Home again by 6.30.
After supper called on Mr. Howells
at Mrs. Scudder's & had a 
delightful talk of an hour with him.


 






















































