Concord (Farm)
Shrike kills small bird
Ther [Thermometer] THURS. NOV. 6, 1913 [Thursday, November 6, 1913]  Wea [Weather]
First Pine Grosbeak & Redpoll.   Perfect.
Hudsonian Tit
Ground frozen hard at sunrise.
Day cloudless, calm, deliciously soft
& warm with flies buzzing about.
Evening still & warm.
Spent entire day in Birch Field
where Zeph & Bensen were cutting
birches & Burbank & Tom hauling
dirt to grade hollow in road. 
Jim Melvin joined me there at 2 P.M.
  Rather many birds. Pine Grosbeak
heard there & near farm house,
Pine Linnets calling almost ceaselessly
& whirling about. Heard the flight
call of a Redpoll twice among them.
Just before noon I was returning &
approaching foot of lane when the
peculiar skirling cry of a Northern 
Shrike came repeatedly to my ears.
It was followed quickly by a long
succession of cries, ever fainter & fainter,
of some small bird that the Shrike
had evidently caught in our
orchard. I saw neither bird. There
were Chickadees & Juncos there at times
[margin] and once I heard faintly but distinctly the call of Parus hudsonicus [/margin]
Concord (Farm)
Ther [Thermometer] FRI. NOV. 7, 1913 [Friday, November 7, 1913] Wea [Weather]
Perfect
Typical Indian summer weather,
frosty in early morn [morning], deliciously 
warm through most of day, cool
again at eve, absolutely cloudless all
day long with light southerly wind.
  Divided my attention between
the two carpenters making a roof
over space between hen house & shed
& Burbank working on apples
in old barn. Zeph took 3 bbls [3 bushels]
to Concord & also made up
a load to go to Cambridge to-morrow.
There will be upwards of 80 bushels
left for sale. The total crop must
have exceeded 500 bushels.
Dexter came down to supper &
spent evening. Comparatively few birds
about. 7 & 1 Horned Larks flying over
& big flock (about 62) Juncos in
orchard & about house.