Concord (Farm)
Ther [Thermometer] Thursday, Oct. 15, 1914 [October 15, 1914] Wea [Weather]
Big flock migrant Crow Black'ds [Crow Blackbird]. Perfect
Clear, calm, deliciously warm. An 
Indian summer type of day.
  Burbank saw 10 Pheasants near
well house across road when he went
there for water at 7 A.M. I heard
them crowing & calling at intervals
thru. [through] day. At 7.30 A.M I had a
fleeting view of at least 300 Crow
Blackbirds which the little terrier, Tim,
had started from ground where millet
was harvested in our apple orchard
a few weeks ago. They went off to
S.W. [southwest]. At 4 P.M. I saw 15+ flying
low N.E. [northeast]. At breakfast time 5 Robins,
6 Peabody birds, a young Cedar bird & an
adult Chippy [Chipping Sparrow] & a Cat bird were all
enjoying a bath at once under spray
of hose playing in front of house.
12 Cedar birds perched in leafless top of
big elm by barn launching out after flying
insects at 5 P.M.
  The men finished drainage canal & grading
new roads in Cedar Park where I spent
most of day.

Concord (Farm)
Ther [Thermometer] Friday, Oct. 16, 1914 [October 16, 1914] Wea [Weather]
Rainy.
Raining steadily, but at no time
heavily, all day long - a very gentle yet
also wetting rain, the first we have
had since August. Foggy; warm, with
light S. [south] wind.
  Several Robins & Peabody birds, with
3 juv [juvenile] Cedar birds, bathing in puddles
& water spray of hose, front of house, 7 A.M.
15 Robins flying S. [south] at 8 A.M. were
perhaps migrating. Locusts close about
house visited by [male] Hairy [Hairy Woodpecker] & [male] Downy [Downy Woodpecker].
A few Peabody birds - not above a dozen -
haning [hanging] about grape vines all day,
singing a good deal, at times rather
well. Bluebirds in full song for
half an hour after breakfast (ie from
7.30 to 8). Literally their songs were
as tender, finished & oft-repeated as
in early spring but perhaps somewhat
less loud. It was truly delightful to
listen to them.
  Manson & Casper did not come to-day.
The other men worked in shed & house.
I was with them constantly