Concord (Farm)
Ther [Thermometer] Tuesday, Oct. 24, 1916 [October 24, 1916] Wea [Weather] Fine.
 Evening Grosbeak (?)
  Heavy white frost at sunrise contrasting
exquisitely with brilliant autumn foliage
in thickets of blueberry bushes near our
well house across the road. Forenoon
brilliantly clear & quite windless.
Clouds gathering & easterly wind rising 
in late P.M.
  Very few birds. White-throats [White-throated Sparrow] all
gone & less than a dozen Juncos noted.
  Only two Robins & a Flicker, 3 Goldfinches 
& a couple of Jays near House.
  Birch Field well nigh deserted save 
by Chickadees (11 in one flock) &
Gold-crests [Golden-crowned Kinglet] (2).
  As I was standing near the house at
9.30 A.M. the notes of an unseen bird
which I feel almost sure was an Evening
Grosbeak came to my ears, apparently from
Cedar Park. They were not unlike the harsh
chirps of a House Sparrow but much louder &
otherwise appreciably different. I hurried down
the lane but the bird ceased calling before
I had gone many rods & then was heard
afar off southward, once or twice.
  Spent most of forenoon with men, near
house. Gilbert [Robert Alexander Gilbert] went to Cambridge. Dexter came
to dinner. After it we walked to Birch Field.
Shot a Gray Squirrel near Bungalow.

Concord (Farm)
Ther [Thermometer] Wednesday, Oct. 25, 1916 [October 25, 1916] Wea [Weather]
Fine
Early morning foggy & also somewhat cloudy.
Sun shining brightly after 10 A.M. Hoar
frost over night but most of day comfortably
warm with light S.W.[southwest] wind.
  Oak foliage very handsome now. Also
that of high blueberry & huckleberry bushes.
Birch leaves losing color & many fallen.
One swamp maple in run has not
lost a leaf as yet but its foliage
has turned yellow without trace of red
although the tree is Acer rubrum beyond
a doubt.
  Fall migration practically over. The
only bird certainly a south-bound
migrant, noted to-day, was a solitary
Yellow-rump [Yellow-rumped Warbler]. In Berry Pasture, at 9 A.M.,
I heard Pine Linnets calling all about me
& evidently perched but not one could be seen.
Besides their customary notes they uttered
freely the Goldfinch-like may-bee freely &
very sweetly. There must have been many of them.
No Robins. 3 Juncos & a Goldfinch bathing.
  Spent most of day planting bulbs &
other things with Burbank's help.
  Timmy [Brewster's dog] & I went to Birch Field at sunset.
He ran through the thicket where I shot the hen
Partridge last week without starting anything
but when I came to it four Partridges flew
in quick succession from top of gray birch
where they must have been bedding. They
gave me no chance for a shot & indeed 
came scarce seen at all through the dense
pine foliage.