Concord (Farm)
Heavy snow-storm
Ther [Thermometer] Sunday, April 9, 1916 Wea [Weather] Stormy
Evening Grosbeaks
Dark cloudy with violent N.E. [northeast]
wind and dense, incessant fall
of large snow flakes. Burbank says
it snowed all last night. At
day break [daybreak] the snow covered the ground
to a depth of two inches & by sunset
it was four or five inches deep. 
  We cleared the snow from a small 
space in front of house & put millet
seed there & in the open sheds.
Upwards of 20 Juncos, 3 Song Sparrows
& 2 Fox Sparrows fed on it freely in
both places. The Fox Sparrows sang
gloriously at times. Two obviously 
shivering Bluebirds perched close to the
windows under lee of house. 10 Robins
feeding on barberries along wall by road.
Cock Pheasant stalking across field.
Miss Eaton reported 4 Evening Grosbeaks
near her house at 8 A.M. Dexter saw
8 (1 [male], 7 in [female] pl.[plumage]) there at noon.
  I spent entire day in house
writing letters ceaselessly. Poor 
little Timmy with me, very unhappy
because he had no walk about.

Concord (Farm)
Wintry landscape. First Hyla.
Ther [Thermometer] Monday, April 10, 1916 Wea [Weather] Fine
Pine Siskin, Evening Grosbeaks
Brilliantly clear & comfortably warm
with light north west wind. "White world"
at early morn the ground uniformly covered
with snow 4" [inches] deep, every branch & twig
loaded with it, all the tree trunks so
completely encrusted that the woodland
everywhere looked as if made up wholly
of white birches - a novel effect. Sunlight
painfully dazzling at first. Much bare ground
by noon & exposed fields mostly bare by night.
A large brown Butterfly on wing over snow 
at 10 A.M.
  No sight nor sound of Bluebirds. Only
a few Robins. One silent Phoebe at Pulpit
Rock. Flocks of Juncos at Farm & about 20
in Birch Field feeding in tops of birches
as were 5 Goldfinches. Heard a Pine Siskin
there. 2 Fox Sparrows front of house.
2 Blue Jays & a hen Partridge (Birch Field)
Dexter saw the 8 Evening Grosbeaks (1 [male], 7 [females])
at Miss Eatons. Heber [Howe?] asked her to
let him shoot one but she refused.
  With Burbank & George I spent day in
Pulpit Rock woods cutting & burning trees
& brush. "Timmy" with me.

One Hyla, the first, peeping loud & clear, 3 P.M. in pond below orchard.