Concord (Farm)
Ther [Thermometer] Tuesday, Oct. 10, 1916 [October 10, 1916] Wea [Weather] Superb
34 [degrees] at 8 P.M.
Brilliantly clear with high, cool
N.W. [northwest] wind.
  7 Robins in or near dooryard all day, 
spending much of their time running about
over the lawn where I repeatedly saw them
draw out earthworms. They also ate barberries
freely. Here, also, were seen a Cat-bird [Catbird], a
Song Sparrow, several Juncos & a dozen or
more White-throats [White-throated Sparrow]. There was a [male] Towhee
not far off, in Cedar Park.
  Visiting Birch Field, in company with
Timmy [Brewster's dog], at 9 A.M. I found there
upwards of 25 Yellow-rumps [Yellow-rumped Warbler], one
Yellow Palm Warbler, a Ruby-crowned [Ruby-crowned Kinglet] &
a Golden-crested Kinglet [Golden-crowned Kinglet] & a Chickadee all
feeding busily among the birch branches.
  At 7 A.M. a flock of 14 Rusty Blackbirds
flew low S.W. [southwest] over orchard & in late P.M.
a dense cluster of Starlings, at least 30 in
number, took precisely the same route. 
Just before sunset a large swift-winged
Hawk that looked very like a Gos-hawk [Goshawk],
circled low over the orchard & then stooped
at something there.
  Spent most of day in house working on
Museum Rep. [Report] without nearly finishing it.

Concord (Farm & Ball's Hill)
Ther [Thermometer] Wednesday, Oct. 11, 1916 [October 11, 1916]  Wea [Weather] Fine
Wild grape vine bearing choice fruit
Clear with ever lessening N.W.[northwest] wind
and rising temperature. Fields white with
hoar frost at sunrise when Burbank
found a little ice in the poultry yard.
No apparent damage to vegetation, however.
We are still eating tomatoes, lettuce, etc.
Green corn practically all gone. Plenty
of strawberries & late peaches.
  Zeph [Zephaniah Prosser] found in our Berry Pasture to-day a
wild grape vine loaded with ripe & really
delicious fruit in handsome symmetrical
buches [bunches], some green in color like Niagaras,
others - & these the best flavored - decidedly pinkish.
The pulp was juicy, the skins thin. No
musky flavor.
  A great mob of intermingling Juncos &
White throats [White-throated Sparrow] in millet at Farm. 2 Pine 
Linnets eating sunflower seeds.
  Birch Field swarming with Yellow-rumps [Yellow-rumped Warbler].
2 Yellow Palm Warblers there.
  Spent entire morning on Museum Report
finishing it by noon. Mailed by Gilbert [Robert Alexander Gilbert] at 1.30.
In P.M. drove through Birch Field & to
Davis & Ball's Hills with Burbank, who
put up 17 "No Shooting" signs.