Concord (Farm)
Ther [Thermometer] TUES. OCT. 21, 1913 [Tuesday, October 21, 1913]  Wea [Weather]
Fine
Clear & cool with raging W. [west]
wind before which drove cloud
masses that occasionally obscured the 
sun.
  A flock of migrant Crows at
least 300 strong, circling low over
woods in run at 8 A.M., making
a prodigious clamor & once
settling for a moment in tall trees.
  When in lower part of Berry
Pasture just after sunset I heard
the whistling sound of wings & then
saw a large Woodcock coming in
from eastward among the maples.
A few minutes later I found & 
flushed it near western edge of cove
when it flew off out of sight due W. [west].
  Spent most of day supervising
sorting & boxing of apples. Also
planted tulip bulbs.
Concord (Farm)
Ther [Thermometer] WED. OCT. 22, 1913 [Wednesday, October 22, 1913]  Wea [Weather]
Perfect.
Brilliantly clear with little or no
wind. White frost in early morn [morning]. Warm
through mid-day hours.
  A day of teeming bird life and
unwonted bird activity. There were
at the Farm many White-throats [White-throated Sparrows] &
Juncos & 5 or 6 Chippins [Chipping sparrows] in our weedy 
garden, a Canada [nuthatch?] & a White-bellied
Nuthatch [White-breasted Nuthatch] with 2 Downies [Downy Woodpeckers] in our elms,
a few Pine Linnets in a birch, a
Purple Finch in orchard, a Song Sparrow, 
a cock Pheasant chasing grasshoppers
at 11.30 in field across road. At eve [evening]
Dexter & I found Berry Pas. [Berry Pasture] alive with
roosting Juncos & White-throats [White-throated Sparrows] &
with these a Fox Sparrow. We saw 2
Pheasants fly up into a pine to roost
& heard a Woodcock rise on whistling 
winds. After returning to house we
heard a Screech Owl & then 2 Night
Herons barking loudly & near, on wing.
Spent most of day with men who
were sorting & boxing apples. Hosman
& 2 men put in window in back entry.
Hosman told me that Zeph took some
400 ft. [feet] of my pine boards for his home
[margin] last summer[/margin]