Concord (Farm & Sleepy Hollow)
Ther [Thermometer] Monday, Oct. 30, 1916 [October 30, 1916] Wea [Weather]
Fair.
Sunny but densely hazy; very warm
with light southerly breeze & intervals of calm.
Altogether an Indian-summer-like day.
  About 8 A.M. a flock of Bronzed Grackles
comprising at least 75 members alighted in
the top of an elm & remained there several
minutes before flying off out westward.
They were very noisy while perched.
  Upwards of 30 Juncos feeding in millet.
2 Robins descending from high in air at
sunset & seeking roosts among dense young
pines in Birch Field. Three Partridges 
flushed by Timmy [Brewster's dog] in Birch Field, one
old cock drumming on stone wall at
foot of run. A few Chickadees, a Jay,
a Downy [Downy Woodpecker], several Crows. Titlarks heard
at Green Field.
  Spent much of forenoon cutting out a
new pathway through Birch Field. Went
there again with gun at 4.30 P.M. when
Timmy started the Partridges. I got no shot.
Motored to Sleepy Hollow at 3 P.M.
& marked places for hemlocks to be
planted for Mrs. Melvin near Memorial.

Concord (Farm)
Ther [Thermometer] Tuesday, Oct. 31, 1916 [October 31, 1916] Wea [Weather] Dull
Rabbit. Acadian Titmouse
  Dark cloudy with cool N.E. [northeast] wind
and mist so nearly like fine rain that
the trees dripped with it & the grass was
soaking wet all day. Yet there was no
perceptible rain fall whatever or at least none
sufficient to make one think of using an umbrella.
  Not many birds about the Farm. Started
upwards of 25 Juncos in the millet. 14
Pine Linnets & 11 Starlings seen on wing.
The former alighted for a moment in an
apple tree in the orchard. Visiting the
Berry Pasture at 11 A.M., unfortunately
without a gun, I was surprised when
Timmy [Brewster's dog] flushed no less than four big
cock pheasants from dense brush bordering
on the patch of standing corn. Yet Monson
and Casper had been teaming stone from
a heap within 20 yards of the birds for
an hour or more. Heard an Acadian Tit
call many times in tall leafy oaks just
above Cedar Park & started a drummer
Partridge from stone wall at foot of run.
  Happening to glance under the green top of a
fallen pine in Pulpit Rock woods I espied a
Cotton-tail Rabbit crouching there within a
yard of me. Timmy at my very side did not 
scent him & we left him there undisturbed.
  Spent most of day out of doors with the
men. Zeph [Zephaniah Prosser] cut down the tall slender young elm
at east end of dooryard.