Concord (Farm)
Ther [Thermometer] Monday, Mar. 23, 1914 [March 23, 1914] Wea [Weather]
Mixed
Forenoon sunny but hazy.
Afternoon cloudy with snow
squalls whitening ground & trees. 
Light, variable winds. Mild but
chilly. Surface of groundd [ground] muddy at
noon.
  Only birds noted 1 Creeper, [male]
br. Nuthatch [ White-breasted Nuthatch] [in full song] (near Pulpit R. [Pulpit Rock]), 4
Juncos front of Bungalow, Hairy
Woodpecker (in orchard) a few Crows
& 3 Cock Pheasants. Two [of] the
last named birds in or near
Green Field crowed regularly every
time the report of a distant heavy
blast was heard.
  Spent day in Birch Field with
Burbank, Zeph & Bensen. We
cut a large number of birches &
Zeph teamed all the wood out to
the road. Raymond has bought it
at $3.50 per cord. Sold 5 cords of 
oak to Mrs. Howe at 3.75. Saw
fresh Rabbit tracks in Pulpit Rock 
woods & Birch Field.

Concord (Farm & Ball's Hill)
Ther [Thermometer] Tuesday, Mar. 24, 1914 [March 24, 1914] Wea [Weather]
First Moth. Fine
Clear calm &, for the season, warm.
altogether a very springlike day.
  Continued general scarcity of birds
and total absence of all except
winter resident species. I looked &
listened in vain for Bluebirds, Song
Sparrows, Red-wings & other early kinds.
The only bird song heard was that
of a Shrike singing uncommonly well
on one of Bensen's apple trees, 4.30 P.M.
Saw large gray moth on wing.
2 [in a flock] Chickadees, a Tree Sparrow, a Red-
shouldered Hawk & 2 ad [adult male] Gooseanders [Goosanders]
(in river opp. [opposite] cabin) at Ball's Hill,
the Shrike & a solitary Redpoll near
Bensen's, 4 Partridges in Birch Field,
a Hairy W. [Hairy Woodpecker], a Jay, several Crows
& 2 Pheasants (hd. [heard in full song]) at Farm.
  Spent forenoon with Zeph & George
burning brush near lane.
  Bradford A. Scudder dined with
me. We walked to Ball's Hill in P.M.
He returned to Boston by 5.45 train
He's is new Sec. Mass. Fish & Game Pro. Ass. 
[Secretary of Massachusetts Fish & Game Protective Association]