Cambridge - Concord.
Ad. [Adult] Screech Owl with Mouse. Young Owl dead.
Ther [Thermometer] Monday, June 12, 1916 Wea [Weather] Mixed.
Gray Squirrel raids Robin's nest.
Forenoon sunny, calm, humid & sultry.
Afternoon dark cloudy & foggy with a
succession of heavy showers & distant thunder.

  Leaving house at 7.45 Gilbert [Robert Alexander Gilbert] & I motored
to Concord via Arlington, Lexington &
Bedford, reaching Farm at 9.15. Roads
deep in mud, brook & river meadows under
water. Saw hardly any birds & not a single
Robin the whole way. 
  Worked awhile after dinner among my
flowers until the rain drove me in.
No one here but Burbank & George. Vegetation
suffering from excessive rain & cloudiness.
  Birds singing well - including a Grosbeak &
a Nashville Warbler. Gray Screech Owl appeared
at evening flitting from tree to tree behind barn
with a mob of clamoring Robins trailing after.
He had in his bill what looked like a small Mouse, its tail showing
Gilbert found a red young Scops freshly dead
under rustic shack near barn. No external
mark of injury & bird in good condition.
  Burbank reports seeing a Gray Squirrel raid a
Robin's nest under Bungalow porch roof last
Saturday. He first threw out all the eggs & then
ripped out lining of nest. Several other Robin's
nests near house similarly despoiled of late.

Concord (Farm)
Ther [Thermometer] Tuesday, June 13, 1916 Wea [Weather]
Mixed.
Forenoon sunny & sultry with light E. [east] wind.
Brisk showers with distant thunder 1 - 2 P.M.
After that sunshine again. Evening calm & clear.
  Birds singing well all day. They have
fallen off in numbers considerably of late,
both as individuals & species. Very few have
reared young as yet. Indeed a brood of Chippies [Chipping Sparrows],
hatched in vine of Bungalow piazza, are literally
all I have noted. At least 2 pairs of Robins
are feeding young in the nest, however. They
are having an anxious time with the Owls &
Squirrels & clamor loudly whenever either appear.
Most of their nests have been plundered by
something. Of our Tree Swallows only one pair,
nesting in low apple tree near well house, are left.
The Barn Swallows nest in Bungalow barn
has 5 eggs but is deserted. I found many
wing & tail feathers of one parent bird strewn 
over cement floor of open shed, yesterday.
It looked like a Cat's work but perhaps was a
Screech Owl's.
  Spent day rambling about place & woods.
Dexter could not come to spray.