Cambridge - Concord - Cambridge.
Ther [Thermometer] Thursday, Nov. 23, 1916 [November 23, 1916] Wea [Weather]
Stormy.
Cloudy & very warm with strong S.W. [southwest] 
wind & heavy rain from noon to after 
dark.
  In Garden: Canada Nuthatch ([male] on cherry tree),
Shufeldt's Junco [male], with [male and female] Eastern Junco,
[male] ad [adult] Peabody bird & 15 House Sparrows, eating
millet seed put out for them near Museum.
  Concord (Farm): 1 Chickadee at suet,
15 Redpolls [in a flock] & a cock Pheasant in
Berry Pasture, 1 [male] House Sp. [House Sparrow] in Forsythia bushes.
  Walter Deane came down to see the
Shufeldt's Junco at 9 A.M. & had a good, near
view of him from Mus. [Museum] window. He looked
richer colored than ever before, &, I thought,
almost enough so for oregonus.
  Gilbert [Robert Alexander Gilbert] & I motored to Concord (10 - 11.10 
A.M.) via Arlington, Lexington & Bedford.
River frozen over completely at Carlisle Bridge.
Not a single bird seen all the way.
At Farm found Monson & Casper at work.
Paid them in full to date. Wall in front
of house completed. Country sere & desolate
looking. Walked to Birch Field in rain.
Motored to Concord & took 3.44 train
back to Cambridge. 

Cambridge.
Ther [Thermometer] Friday, Nov. 24, 1916 [November 24, 1916] Wea [Weather] Fine
54 [degrees] max. [maximum] A strange caller.
  Clear with boisterous westerly wind
and slowly falling temperature which,
however, was almost summer like through
greater part of day & no more than 
seasonably cool at evening.
  In Garden: Goldcrest [Golden-crowned Kinglet] & Blue Jay heard,
Peabody bird (ad. [adult]), Junco ([female]) and about
15 House Sparrows feeding on millet seed.
  Working all day in Museum on
Concord bird notes of last spring.
Shortly after luncheon there came a sharp
rap at the door which I entered [answered], Gilbert [Robert Alexander Gilbert]
being away. Entered a tall, dark-haired,
smooth-faced young man wrapped in a long
light gray overcoat. He asked to see "my son"
& when I denied ever having one he stared at
me long & fixedly with piercing eyes as if
doubting such assurance. Then he enquired if I 
were a sportsman adding that he & his father
had killed 5 Partridges on the last open day.
Altogether he acted rather strangely. I learned 
later that what must have been the selfsame
youth had called at the Cobb-Fullers, about
this same hour asking to see their house &
asserting he came from the assessors' office.
I reported all this by tel. [telephone] to Police Office.
  E. [Elizabeth R. Simmons] went to Bee this eve [evening]. C. [Caroline Brewster] & I spent it
together. I read war news & played Victrola.