Concord(Farm)
Will Stone died this morn [morning] at S. Yarmouth.
Ther [Thermometer]  MON. OCT. 27, 1913 [Monday, October 27, 1913]  Wea [Weather]
3 Hudsonian Tits in a flock [3 Hudsonian Titlarks in a flock] at Farm.     Perfect
Cloudless skies, light westerly
wind & summerlike temperatures
combined to make a heavenly day.
  Spent day out of doors near
house supervising work of seven or
eight men. Carpenters at work in
house, Burbunk boxing apples. Tom
making path, Bensen & George
grubbing brush, Zeph working [horse?].
  At 9 A.M. heard faint call once
of Parus hudsonicus rear of houses.
Heard it at intervals later. At 11.40
traced it to 3 of these Tits [Titlarks] in low
bushes in [sprout land?] below barn &
near low pasture. Got within 3 yds
of them as they flitted about only a 
foot or two above ground. Flock of
150+ Crow Blackbirds on wing circling
over Lawrence's corn at 11 A.M.
Many Pheasants going to roost &
Woodcock rising on whistling wing in
Berry Pasture at 5.20 P.M.
At 6 P.M. Alicia Keyes telephoned to say
that Will Stone died this morning.
[margin] I telephoned C.[Caroline] at once & later talked 
over [?] with Jack Allen & Mrs. Stone. Dexter
came at 8 & spent evening. [/margin]
Concord(Farm)
Ther [Thermometer]  TUES. OCT. 28, 1913 [Tuesday, October 28. 1913]  Wea [Weather]
3 Hudsonian Tits [3 Hudsonian Titlarks in a flock] again         Fair
  Mostly cloudy with occasional intervals
of sunshine. Warm with light easterly
winds. Several brisk showers in P.M.
First Horned Larks (heard).
3 Hudsonian Tits [3 Hudsonian Titlarks in a flock] heard repeatedly & 
seen once together in top of our big elm.
They kept apart from other birds &
did not once join the Black-cap Tits [Black-capped Titlarks]
flitting about the place. White-throats [White-throated Sparrows]
in small numbers & Juncos greatly
outnumbering them were feeding close
to the house in [?] places.
Spent most of day with [Hobrun?]
& his two carpenters who began
a new grape arbor in the flower
garden at 8.30 A.M. & finished it
by 4 P.M. It is made of red cedar
cut mostly in our run. We also
worked on lumber shed, Ritchie place.