Concord (Farm & Middlesex S.)
Ther [Thermometer] Sunday, Oct. 25, 1914 [October 25, 1914] Wea [Weather]
Lapland Longspurs. Fine
Clear & cool with fresh N.E. [Northeast] wind.
  Starting off at 9 A.M. with little
"Tim" for company I spent a
delightful forenoon in woods lying
between the Farm & Bensen's, penetrating 
into many a remote & pathless nook
which I seldom visit oftener than
once or twice in an entire year.
Started a Woodcock in the run
bordering on Cedar Park & 2 Partridges
elsewhere. Not many smaller birds.
Returning about 11 A.M. I was 
standing in front of barn when a 
flight call consisting of six or eight hard,
woodeny notes given very quietly & all
alike, attracted my attention. It was 
repeated several times & came from 2 
birds passing southward about 150 feet in
air over our orchard, one leading the
other by perhaps a rod & both moving 
swiftly in long, gentle undulations. I
remembered the call as that of the Lapland
Longspur which I heard last at Ipswich
many years ago. Both birds looked &
flew like Longspurs as I recall them.
  Motored over to Middlesex School in 
P.M. to see Museum which Helen Howe
showed me. Called at Rudolph Petersen's.

Concord (Farm)
Ther [Thermometer] Monday, Oct. 26, 1914 [October 26, 1914] Wea [Weather]
Fine.
  Clear & warm with light westerly wind.
Clouds gathering at sunset & circle around
moon this evening.
  Spent day supervising work of the
men. Manson, Casper & Zeph broke through
wall of field across road to make
opening for new gateway. George dug
& manured flower beds in Cedar Park.
Burbank worked on hen house. The
electrician finished (at last) wiring
the house for lighting, cooking & heating
(bath room & lavatory in second story)
Comparatively few birds. About a dozen
Juncos & several White-throats [White-throated Sparrow] in weed
patches, 4 Robins in lane, Purple
Finches heard in Cedar Park, Crows &
Jays flying to & fro occasionally.
Just before sunset heard the faint,
listless, widely intermittent chirping of
a Tree Sparrow in Berry Pasture &
saw a fine big cock Pheasant on wing there.
A little later took Tim & 20 gauge gun
& went to Birch Field. Failed to start
anything there.