Concord (Farm)
Ther [Thermometer] Wednesday, April 19, 1916 Wea [Weather] Fine
Goshawk
Brilliantly clear with high, cold N.W. [northwest]
wind. Warmer in late P.M. when it lulled.
Small birds mostly silent & not otherwise
much in evidence. Bluebirds & Meadow
Larks [Meadowlarks] sang rather freely but I heard no
Robin music nor Song Sparrow, either.
About 3 P.M., while standing near
Pulpit Rock, I saw a [female] Goshawk
coming directly towards me from Birch
Field. It followed precisely the same
course & direction as the one seen on 16th
& was, no doubt, the selfsame bird. It
looked almost as big as an Osprey but
had the form & proportions of a Cooper's Hawk
& much the same exceedingly swift, gliding
flight performed with only an occasional
wing beat & suggestive alike of leisurely
stealth & terrific momentum. As it
passed within 60 yards, in full sunlight
& below tops of taller trees, I could see that
it was not fully adult, the "blue" of the
upper parts being tinged with faded brown
& the lower parts very coarsely masked with
blackish. This, doubtless, was the slayer
of all the Partridges whose feathered 
remains I have found of late about our woods.
  Spent most of day in Pulpit Rock woods
where Zeph & George were cutting trees & brush.

Concord (Farm)
Ther [Thermometer] Thursday, April 20, 1916 Wea [Weather]
Perfect
Clear, warm, almost windless.
  Birds singing freely & delightfully all
day long yet present in no great numbers
apparently, Juncos being the only exception
to this rule. Of them I saw at least 40
in our orchard which they enlivened by
their ceaseless flittings & low, sweet trilling
songs. Our Phoebees [Phoebes] were in & about the
barn cellar but the [male] kept silent.
A Partridge was drumming on the stone
wall in run at 10 P.M. last night &
through most of to-day. Bluebirds still
singing freely. Only single pair of Swallows.
At 3 P.M. my attention was called by
Burbank to a big bird passing over
N.E. [northeast] at an immense height - fully a
mile I thought. Even through my glass
it looked scarce larger than a Swallow. I
took it to be a Fish Hawk, migrating.
  Burbank & I spent entire day
grafting apple trees. Zeph & George
burned an immense lot of brush in [?]
run near Pulpit Rock.