Concord (Farm)
Ther [Thermometer] Tuesday, April 11, 1916 Wea [Weather]
Fine
Evening Grosbeaks. 2 [in a flock] Kingfishers.
  Brilliantly clear with light W. [West] wind.
Ground hard-frozen at sunrise. Most
of day comfortably warm.
  Wood Frogs in deafening chorus in
pond below orchard, also in run.
One Hyla peeping in [?].

  Not very many birds & only a few singing
save Juncos. They were at their best, in
apple orchard, 3 P.M., flooding calm air
with musical medley of subdued trills &
liquid notes. 3 Fox Sparrows, one singing
divinely. Silent Phoebe at barn cellar.
One Bluebird in full song. 2 Swallows
bickering at box.  Red-shoul. Hawk [Red-shouldered Hawk]
soaring high with ringing screamings over
or beyond our cow pasture.  Dead silence
in woodland save for Frogs.
  At 8 A.M. 2 Kingfishers flew low over our
orchard, rattling. One kept on westward, the
other alighted for 1/2 minute among slender
sprays in top of elms over lane.
  Miss Eaton reports 8 Evening Grosbeaks about
her house all day yesterday but none there
to-day. Zeph. [Zephaniah Prosser] heard Woodcock singing at
day break this morning near his brook.
  I spent morning cutting & burning on Pulpit R. [Pulpit Rock]
woods, afternoon putting up bird houses.

Concord (Farm & Village)
Ther [Thermometer] Wednesday, April 12, 1916 Wea [Weather]
Mixed
  Evening Grosbeaks seen by W.B. [William Brewster]
  Forenoon rainy up to 10 o'clock; after that [?]
cloudy. Afternoon pretty sunny. Light N.W. [Northwest] wind.
  Miss Mary Eaton telephoned at 9.15 that the
Evening Grosbeaks had reappeared. I started as
soon as the Ford car could be got ready &
reached her house about 9.45. The birds had been
seen near the house only five minutes before but
were gone when I arrived. We soon found them
on the hillside beyond in a grassy hollow. The
single [male], a much handsomer bird than either of
those at Lexington, was on the ground at first while in
an apple tree above him were 10 birds in [female] garb.
Thus the flock numbered 11 members in all although
not more than 8 have been seen before at [?]
since the first day (8th) [April 8, 1916] when Miss Eaton thought
she saw about 12 but made sure of only 6.
We watched them this morning for about 1/2 hour.
They remained long in the apple tree, sometimes
scattered all over it, occasionally clustering near
together, perching erect & statuesque, hopping or
flitting listlessly when they moved, ever sluggish
& inert of movement, silent for the most part
but every now & then uttering the House Sparrow
calls, easily mistaken for those of the Sparrow but
appreciably shriller & more piping or as Miss E. [Mary Eaton]
said, near Frog (ie Hyla)-like. Other than
these notes I heard no vocal sounds whatever.
There was a House Sparrow ([female]) with them in
the apple tree. At length they left it & with
swift moderately undulating flight swept
over the hill to a cluster of gray birches
where they alighted & remained for many
minutes near as inert as before. Finally
they flew out of sight westward. Where
they have been feeding mostly close to the
house I found the ground thickly strewn
with winged seeds beneath a tree 50 ft. [feet] tall
& over a foot through at base which I think
is a box elder. A large ash stands not
far off but they have not been seen to touch
its abundant seeds on which Purple Finches
were feeding.
  Got back at 11.30. Spent 5 P.M. in
Pulpit Rock woods with Zeph [Zephaniah Prosser] & George.