Concord (Farm)
Ther [Thermometer] Monday, Oct. 16, 1916 [October 16, 1916]  Wea [Weather] Fair
Gray Squirrels nearly [?], a few Reds [Red Squirrels], many chips [Chipmunks].
Partly cloudy, mostly sunny; warm;
light S.W. [southwest] wind.
Some red maples mostly bare, others leafy &
glowing, a few still green. Birches have lost
but little foliage as yet. Hardly any wild flowers [wildflowers]
left. Our Zinnias still making a brave show.
  Old time flight of Hermit Thrushes. Saw
no less than nine. Farm lands flooded with
Juncos & White-throats [White-throated Sparrow]. They with a dozen
or more Robins bathing in front of house all day.
Two Ruby-crowns [Ruby-crowned Kinglet] in Lane, a third in Birch
Field with a big flock (30+) of Yellow rumps [Yellow-rumped Warbler]
which also included a Yellow Palm Warbler,
2 Gold-crests [Golden-crowned Kinglet], Chickadees & a Downy [Downy Woodpecker].
A Sapsucker tapping softly on elm trunk in Lane.
Bluebirds calling at morn [morning] & eve [evening], on wing.
3 Song Sparrows. Jays all gone, apparently.
No Pheasants. Only one Partridge.
Through Berry Pasture & Birch Field with Timmy [Brewster's dog]
9-10 A.M. & again with Dexter 3-4 P.M.
Monson, Cooper & Zeph [Zephaniah Prosser] working in Berry Pas. [Berry Pasture],
Harris [Percy Harris] & Joe on bird bath fountain,  Burbank 
& George picking apples. I see many
Chipmunks, a few Red Squirrels, no Grays.

Concord (Farm)
Ther [Thermometer] Tuesday, Oct. 17, 1916 [October 17, 1916] Wea [Weather] Fine
A late-lingering Phoebe.
Early morning cloudy & mild. Rest of day
brilliantly clear steadily falling temperature
and a living gale blowing at first from S.W. [southwest], then
shifting gradually to N.W. [northwest]. Large trees in exposed
places lost countless dead branches & not a 
few living ones. Dust blown from road surface
flew in clouds over woods & fields and
brilliant Autumn leaves filled the air at times
or circled and eddied low over the ground.
  As always happens where there is wind 
of such extreme violence it banished
most of the birds from open places. Only
a few Juncos & White-throats [White-throated Sparrow] visited the
dooryard but there were a dozen or more
Robins there at times & all three species
bathed freely. In Birch Field I found about
a dozen Yellow-rumps [Yellow-rumped Warbler], a Ruby-crown [Ruby-crowned Kinglet], and a 
Hermit Thrush. Timmy [Brewster's dog] & I went there
in both forenoon & afternoon. He started 2
Partridges, one of which ran out into an
opening within ten yards of me & then took
flight behind some dark pines before I could
get gun to shoulder. On the way back, in P.M.
he treed a big Gray Squirrel in a tall birch &
I shot it.
  Harris cementing about bird bath. Zeph
cutting brush. Monson & Cooper ditching on
Berry Pasture. Burbank & George picking apples.

A silent Phoebe in sleek aut. pl. [autumn plumage] perched on a 
low branch of the big pine in Pulpit Rock woods as I passed
that way this forenoon.