Concord (Farm)
Ther [Thermometer] Wednesday, Oct. 7, 1914 [October 7, 1914] Wea [Weather]
Maple coloring still at climax & Fair
uncommonly brilliant.
  Cloudy with occasional intervals
of mellow sunlight and generally clear
sky in late P.M. Mild with
light S.W. wind. Heavy white frost
last night.
  Went about farm boundaries with
Burbank after breakfast putting
up no shooting signs. Returning
spent an hour with Pierce on
orchard which he is pruning &
another in house going over letters
& bills. Spent afternoon in Barry Pas. [Berry Pasture]
with Zeph, Manson & Casper who,
under my direction, grubbed up a 
lot of bushes and cut a few trees.
Started a keen-whistling Woodcock
there in an opening. In forenoon 
saw about 25 Crows chasing a
Marsh Hawk over Howe's meadow.
They kept swooping at him viciously
and cawing excitedly. He was skimming low,
evidently hunting and apparently wasn't at all
annoyed by their onslaughts.
Autumn coloring glorious to-day in all
low places abounding in red maples

Concord
Ther [Thermometer] Thursday, Oct. 8, 1914 [October 8, 1914] Wea [Weather]
Pheasant shooting Perfect.
Clear, calm, very warm & summerlike.
Maple coloring finer than ever and
truly splendid in many swampy places.
Scare one of the painted leaves has fallen
from red maple trees as yet: Seldom have
I known so brilliant a show last so long.
  Leaving the Farm at 9:45 A.M. Gilbert [Robert A. Gilbert]
motored me to Heath's Bridge where I
joined Henry B. Bigelow by appointment
at 8. to try my hand at shooting Pheasants.
we first beat river meadows, just above the
French farm, where "Sly" a big, slow ranging,
black and white "dropper", whom I greatly liked,
presently came to a point in rank grass.
Two birds rose and were missed by Bigelow.
Two more followed them quickly, quartering
to left and right, I killed them both with
a clean double, the first that I have fired
at game birds of any kind for many a year.
After that we tried ground of various kinds
flushing 7 or 8 more Pheasants of which B. killed
one & he & I together another, firing ahead at once.
It was exciting sport which I enjoyed keenly
and intend to follow up as often as possible hereafter.
We killed only hen birds but saw 2 cocks.
Back to farm by 10.30. Worked on my Museum
Report remainder of day save when the
Melvins called at 3.30 P.M. to spend
an hour listening to Victrola.
Bluebirds singing freely this evening.