Concord (Farm)
Ther [Thermometer] Saturday, Mar. 21, 1914 [March 21, 1914] Wea [Weather]
10 degrees, 42 degrees Fine
Clear & cold with light N.W. [northwest]
wind. Sunshine very warm melting
surface of ground in exposed
places to depth of inch or more.
Air very dry & pure.
  Noted only 4 species of birds
a Brown Creeper in Pulpit Rock
woods, a Partridge in Birch Field,
a Junco in front of house, a
flock of 15 Crows flying low
westward at 7 A.M.
  At 4.30 P.M. saw four Gray
Squirrels eating flower buds of an
elm in the top of a tall tree by
orchard & among its finest pendant
twigs.
  Spent day in Birch Field
raking wood road and burning
debris chiefly small sticks & pine
needles. Zeph cut more birches & 
carted of several loads. Burbank
worked all day with Puffer, sawing.
Concord (Farm & Ball's Hill)
Ther [Thermometer] Sunday, Mar. 22, 1914 [March 22, 1914] Wea [Weather]
24 [degrees] First Song Sparrow. Stormy
Snowing all day, at times thick
& fast but much of it melted when
it struck the ground. Dead calm.
  First Song Sparrow, in Forsythia bushes
front of house, 1 P.M., chirping.
This with a few Crows & a Cock
Pheasant in Lawrence's field were
all the birds noted on the Farm.
On Pine Hill 1 Chickadee & 2 more
at Ball's Hill, with Gull soaring high.
At Holden's Hill 2 Hairy Woodpeckers
(probably a mated pair) & Red-shouldered
Hawk screaming long & wildly near
chestnut altho [although] nest there looked small
& very dilapidated. In Howe's meadow
2 Blue Jays & a Tree Sparrow.
  Walked to Ball's Hill in A.M.
(10-12) via Bensen's & Pine Hill,
returning via Holden Hill & Howes.
River open but meadow covered
with solid looking ice. Everything
white with new fallen snow.
Wrote letters in P.M.