Concord (Farm)
Ther [Thermometer] Friday, April 7, 1916  Wea [Weather] Fine
Brilliantly clear with cold & violent
N.W. [northwest] wind.
  Birds mostly silenced & driven to
cover by the harsh & raging wind
so that I saw or heard only a
few. Among these were several
Juncos, a Chickadee. a Gold crest
Kinglet [Golden-crowned Kinglet], a Meadow Lark and
Flicker (both singing). The even song [evensong]
of the Robins was full and 
delightful albeit brief. 
  At the edge of a little opening in
Pulpit Rock woods I found apparently
all the feathers of a Partridge strewn
thickly over the ground but no other
remains. As the wing & tail quills had all
been pulled out and as two broad splashes
of dried chalky white excrement was among 
them the bird must have been killed &
eaten by a Hawk or Owl & perhaps by a
Goshawk although I have not heard of
the local occurrence of the species of late.
  Spent day in Cedar Park cutting
& burning brush. Only Burbank & Zeph
working there with me. 

Concord (Farm)
Ther [Thermometer] Saturday, April 8, 1916  Wea [Weather] Dull
Evening Grosbeaks in Concord
  Cloudy with strong, intensely chilly,
north-east [northeast] wind. Snow flakes began
falling at 4.30 P.M. Coming thicker & faster
they had whitened the entire face of the country
by nightfall and have not yet ceased (9 P.M.)
  2 Fox Sparrows in full song at intervals
through forenoon. At noon they were feeding on
ground front of house where we had put out
hemp & millet seed. 40 Juncos were feasting
on it at 5 P.M. I noted few other birds.
  In three places other than that noticed
yesterday I found today feathers of a 
Partridge that had apparently been killed by a Hawk.
  Miss Mary Eaton reported by telephone this
evening the appearance of Evening Grosbeaks this
forenoon (10.30) in her grounds at Concord
village. She saw six (1 [male] 5 [females]) close to the
house, at first in a birch, next on ground
beneath it. When at length they flew off
five or six others joined them, coming 
from she did not see just where. There 
are large ash trees near by on the seeds
of which Purple Finches has fed [have fed] for the
past few days. She did not see the Grosbeaks
eating them. 
  Burning brush all day in the run.