Concord (Farm)
My first Partridge, for many a year, shot.
Ther [Thermometer] Thursday, Oct. 12, 1916 [October 12, 1916] Wea Fine
34 [degrees] at day break. First Can. Geese [Canada Geese] seen.
  Clear and cool with light easterly wind.
Hoar frost coating everything at day break 
but damaging no vegetation about our Farm.
  Hordes of Juncos and White-throats [White-throated Sparrow], at least 30
Robins, a Song Sparrow and a Towhee. Spent 
day in or close about the Farm, including
the Berry Pasture.
  Birch Field swarming with Yellow-rumps [Yellow-rumped Warbler]. 
At least 50 these [Yellow-rumped Warblers] and with them a handsome
Nashville Warbler with ashy blue head &
clear yellow underparts. Also a Yellow Palm
Warbler & 3 Ruby crowns [Ruby-crowned Kinglet], of which I noted
2 others elsewhere. Hudsonicus (Acadian) Chickadees
& Winter Wren heard near Barrett Spring.
Sapsucker ([female] im [immature]) in Pulpit Rock pines.
  Guns popping in every direction all day 
long. I took mine out at 9 A.M. & shot a
hen Partridge, perched in an alder, which
Timmy [Brewster's dog] flushed in Berry Pasture. He also put up
2 Pheasants which gave me no chance.
After that we went to Birch Field but found
no game bird there.
  At noon Mrs Stone arrived with Lois Howe,
Mrs. Dr. Troitchall & another lady. They
lunched in Cedar Park. Afterwards I walked
with them to Prescott Pines.
  Men picking apples. Harris reroofing rustic shed.

Flock of 43 Canada Geese passed high S. over Carlisle at 5 P.M. Seen by Monson & Casper. 

Concord (Farm)
Ther [Thermometer] Friday, Oct. 13, 1916 [October 13, 1916] Wea [Weather] Stormy.
First flight of migrant crows.
Dark cloudy with violent S.W. [southwest] wind which
brought rain by 3.30 P.M. The first we
have had for weeks it came in intermittent
showers & is still falling at 8 P.M.
  The long-continued autumnal drought
has made the woods as dry as tinder &
all but the larger brooks have been waterless
of late. Vegetation has not suffered much, however.
  Almost all the migrant birds here
yesterday must have passed on southward
during the night. Scarce half a dozen Peabody
birds remained about the Farm & but one
Junco was noted there while Birch Field was
tenanted by only 5 or 6 Yellow rumps [Yellow-rumped Warbler].
A [female] Sapsucker, apparently the selfsame bird seen
yesterday was met with today in Cedar Park.
Two red [male] Purple Finches in larch in Berry Pasture.
40+ Crows migrating high S.W. [southwest] at 10 A.M.
  "Timmy" [Brewster's dog] & I were out with the gun, 9-10.30
A.M. but started only one Partridge & that out
of range. We visited the Berry Pasture & Birch Field.
Monson & Casper, back after a weeks absence, with
Zeph [Zephaniah Prosser] & Lawrence's gray horses, hauling stones for
causeway in Berry Pasture. Harris and his man
moved & reset big bird bath stone in dooryard.
  I spent much of day in house writing letters.