Concord (Farm)
Ther [Thermometer] Sunday, Oct. 11, 1914 [October 11, 1914] Wea [Weather]
76 [degrees]
Clear with fresh S.W. [southwest] wind.
Uncomfortably warm & humid.
Leaves & apples falling fast.
Many red maples bare of foliage
& few retaining much bright coloring.
  Spent most of day in house writing 
letters but walked to Birch Field
with Tim after breakfast & through
Berry Pasture in late P.M. Saw
a few Yellow rumps [Yellow-rumped Warbler] in the forenoon
& flushed 7 Pheasants in the latter
on the shore of our ice pond.
An eighth flew from our poultry
yard.
  There were very many birds
close about our house at breakfast
time. 12 Chippies [Chipping Sparrow] & 4 Cat-birds
were bathing where the hose was playing
8 Robins were running about the grass
a juv [juvenile female] Sapsucker was eating Concord
grapes, a Towhee calling. There was 
also about a score of Peabody birds
here but I saw none elsewhere.

Concord (Farm & Town)
Ther [Thermometer] Monday, Oct. 12, 1914 [October 12, 1914] Wea [Weather]
Pheasant shooting. Fine
Clear with fresh N.W. wind. Cooler
than for several days past.
  Jim Melvin came down for appoint-
ment at 8A.M. to try the Pheasant.
With no dog to help we first beat
the Berry Pasture starting nothing there.
Next to Ritchie place where we found
a mother bird with 5 well grown
young in a narrow strip of standing
corn. The old hen flushed wild & 
went off unshot at. The young were
a few moments later. Four of them
went past Melvin. He fired twice getting
his second bird. The fifth bird went
straight away from me & I killed it
cleanly. We afterwards started an old
cock in Berry Pasture but got no shot.
Motored to Concord at noon & dined
with Melvin in Colonial Inn. Back
by 2. Walked to Birch Field with
Tim in late P.M. Heard a Hermit [Hermit Thrush] &
Swainson's Thrush. Many Yellow-rumps [Yellow-rumped Warbler]
& swarms of White-throats [White-throated Sparrow] (near farm house)
3 Black-polls [Blackpoll Warbler] in Cemetery.
[margin]At 9.45 P.M. heard night calls of migrating Thrushes & at 10 two Night Herons
quarrelling loudly.[/margin]