Cambridge - Concord.
Ther [Thermometer] MON. NOV. 24, 1913 [Monday, November 24, 1913] Wea [Weather]
Barred Owl in Jungle.        Dull
Cloudy & chilly with light N. [north] wind
& a few drops of rain..
Crows cawing vociferously near house at
sunrise. Percy sent in word at 7.30 there
they were mobbing big Owl. Dressing
hastily I rushed forth to find a
Barred Owl in the top of Austrian
pine in Jungle with 5 Crows perched
near it. It was a gigantic specimen of
its [kind?] All the Deanes including
Ruthven came down to see it. As we
stood on mound beneath it talking, it
merely looked down at us with wide open
blue black eyes. It remained there through
forenoon at least.  I worked in Museum
up to 1 P.M. At 2.17 Gilbert [Robert Alexander Gilbert] & I
started for Concord in the Ford reaching
there at 3.16. Not a single bird of
any kind seen the whole way.
After spending about an hour in
vllage motored to Farm & walked 
to Birch Field before dark startling
one Partridge in lane.
[margin] Harry Spelman says his children saw the Owl behind their house in
old Choate place yesterday when [I?] noticed its [?] & [chunking?] under [?] [?]
in our Garden. [/margin]
Concord.
Ther [Thermometer] TUES.NOV. 25, 1913 [Tuesday, November 25, 1913] Wea [Weather]
3 deer killed in C.[Concord?]  last week.   Fine
  Clear & cold with brisk N.W [northwest]
wind. Ground hard frozen in
early morn [morning] & again at eve [evening].
  Entire day devoted to cutting
[?] for winter covering & Christmas
green.  Leaving farm house at 7 A.M.
with Burbank & Zeph I spent most 
of forenoon on Pine Hill. Saw there
3 Chickadees & 2 Golden Crests [Golden-crowned Kinglets] & 
heard a Hudsonian tit (very near at 
hand) & a Pine Grosbeak. In Birch
Field, where we worked in P.M.,
saw 4 Redpolls (& Rosy breasted) & 4
Pine [?]  feeding together in birch,
3 Partridges, 2 Jays, 1 Fox Sparrow.
Near house saw a Pine Grosbeak [female] pl; [?]
in elm) 6 Tree Sparrows, 2 Chickadees
& a Junco & [female] Downy [Downy woodpecker], 2 Pheasant
calling (1 crowing also) in Berry Pasture
at sunset. Fresh tracks of large buck &
doe in Birch Field. Davis says he knows
of [?] 3 Deer killed in Concord last week.