Concord
Ther [Thermometer] Friday, April 6, 1917 Wea [Weather]
Woodcock in Berry Pasture Stormy
"No'theaster", with strong, chill wind
and incessant heavy rain that
filled brooks to overflowing and hollows
in fields with temporary ponds of
surface water. Country white with
snow at day break & for sev. [several] hours later.
Grass in dooryard showing bright
green in spots for first time this spring.
12 Fox Sparrows spent most of day on
lawn front of house eating millet seed.
Only one sang & he but twice 2 Song
Sparrows only birds with them. 20+ Juncos
at Ritchie pl. [Ritchie place]. Purple Finch calling behind
our house. Sev. [several] Robins, one singing well.
I was out with "Timmy" for an hour (10-11)
in forenoon when it was raining hardest.
As we were following a cart path in
Berry Pas. [Berry Pasture] a [male] Woodcock flushed in
dense, swampy maple cover at least 25 ft
away. He came straight towards us into
road, giving me a fine view, & then went
off along it, out of sight. Afterwards a
Partridge flew from a tall pine near Pulpit
Rock. All our little water courses &
(artificial) water falls looking their very best
Spent most of day in house, writing etc.
Put up bird houses in P.M. 

Concord - Boston - Cambridge
Ther [Thermometer] Saturday, April 7, 1917 Wea [Weather]
Stormy
  Cloudy with chill N.E. [northeast] wind, light
rain & thin fog. Roads water soaked &
deep in slimy mud.
  Farm birds. 8 Fox Sparrows & 2 Song S. [Song Sparrows]
feeding on grassy space in front of house.
  One Song Sparrow "bossed" all the rest,
attacking Fox Sparrows with amazing spirit,
repeatly [repeatedly] clinching & rolling over & over with
one or another of them, until finally he was
left to monopolize a yard or more of turf.
Garden birds - Cambridge. A Robin, a Song
Sparrow (singing a little), a Flicker (shouting)
upwards of a dozen Grackles (on ground in Jungle) 
Gilbert motored me to Concord & thence kept 
on to Cambridge, narrowly escaping collision
with another Ford car in Arlington. I
took 8.06 train to Boston talking with George
Keyes all way. Spent 2 hours at office. Put
recently acquired stock certif's [certificates] in Safety Vaults,
took out for sale 37 shs. [shares] West End R.R. Pref. [West End Railroad Preferred]
Ordered large supply garden seeds at Fottlers for
Farm. Selected Easter lily at Becker's for C. [Caroline Brewster]
Home by 12.45. C. not well. Confined to
room by headaches & oppression for sev. [several] days past.
Harry & May Cunningham called mid P.M.
E. [Elizabeth R. Simmons] read "Pride & Prejudice" to me in
hall this eve. [evening] C. down stairs at luncheon only.