Concord (Farm)
Ther [Thermometer] Saturday, Oct. 18, 1916 [October 28, 1916] Wea [Weather] Perfect.
Cock Pheasant shot.

A rare autumnal day, absolutely cloudless,
almost windless, with warm sunshine &
at least one Butterfly (a Clouded Sulphur)
on wing, albeit grass fields white with
hoar frost at sunrise. 
  Pheasants calling vociferously in Berry Pasture
last evening and this morning early. At 6.45
I set forth in pursuit of them. Under cover
of a brush pile approached corn patch closely &
heard them running through the corn when I
showed myself. A moment later 3 birds rose
among the brush beyond, 2 out of range, but
the third was not far, as he topped some alders,
in swift flight, a charge of No.4 shot from the
20 gauge brought him down. I looked for him
long in vain & was about to give it up when 
his tail caught my eye - in a bed of grass. He was
a superb fellow & in perfect plumage.
  Timmy [Brewster's dog] & I went to Birch Field at 9 A.M. &
flushed a Partridge there. We went again at 4 P.M.
& roamed beyond almost to Birch Id. [Birch Island] seeing
another Partridge there but I did not fire at either.
Saw 2 Hermit Thrushes & 2 Yellow rumps [Yellow-rumped Warbler] in
Birch Field. Only a few birds at Farm -
about 20 Juncos, 2 Robins, a Song Sparrow etc.
37 migrating Crows straggling westward 
at 8 A.M.
  Spent most of day with Burbank planting
bulbs & transplanting shrubs etc.
  Raymond & [?] Emerson called when
I was absent in late P.M.

Concord (Farm)
Ther [Thermometer] Sunday, Oct. 29, 1916 [October 29, 1916] Wea [Weather]
                              Fair

Sunny but hazy with clouds gathering
in late P.M. Hoar frost in early morn. [morning]
Warm through day. Light southerly wind.
  Not many birds. About 20 Juncos
in millet patch, a Tree Sparrow in
swampy thicket, a Fox Sparrow among
pines in Birch Field, chirping loudly
at sunset. A few Chickadees, one
Canada Nuthatch, a Jay, several
Crows (evidently local ones)
  As I was sitting by the window
at noon a Pigeon Hawk came
flying low over our dooryard. He
did not seem to notice the rows
of white Pigeons on the shed roof but
I saw that they noticed him &
watched his flight closely, with
evident suspicion.
  Brown came down in forenoon to
mark our apple trees for chaining.
I wrote a few letters. Took Timmy
to Birch Field at 4 P.M. He flushed two
Partridges there & treed one of them in
a leafless birch.