Hungry birds Cambridge - Concord
Ther [Thermometer] Tuesday, April 10, 1917 Wea [Weather]
25 [degrees], 32 [degrees] (max) Snow 6 " [inches] deep over Garden Fine
Mid-winter day in Cambridge. Despite
incessant brilliant sunshine our thermometer on
back porch did not once rise above 32 [degrees] &
a high N.W. [northwest] wind raged ceaselessly. In shaded
places the snow did not change its character or
depth, in sunny ones it melted & settled fast
yet lay 6" [inches] deep almost everywhere at nightfall.
The streets & sidewalks were clear of it, however.
Garden birds - many & very hungry. Percy
shoveled a few yards clear of snow for them
& we kept this area well-supplied with millet
& hemp seed besides bread crumbs. It was
simply crowded all day long with birds
including 50+ House Sparrows, 6 Fox Sparrows,
3 Song Sparrows, a [male] Junco, 7 Grackles, several
street Pigeons. Fox Sparrows sang gloriously,
Song Sparrows only a little. A Flicker "shouting".
A Robin running about over snow.
  Copied notes in A.M. Took 2.40 P.M. train
to Concord where Gilbert [Robert A. Gilbert] met me. Motored to
Farm & walked to Birch Field in late P.M.
Almost no snow to be seen west of Waltham
except in shaded places. Concord fields & roads
wholly free from it when I arrived. Burbank
says only about 2 inches fell in all yesterday.
I found that much under pines today.
Saw only one bird - a Fox Sparrow - at Farm
20 Juncos near [?].

Concord
Ther [Thermometer] Wednesday, April 11, 1917 Wea [Weather]
28 [degrees] min [minimum] (last night) Fine
Brilliantly clear with strong N.W. [northwest] wind
changing to W. [west] & then S.W. [southwest] before noon & to
N.E. [northeast] in late P.M. when the sky became 
thinly overclouded & a "sun-dog" appeared
in it towards the west.
  Upwards of 150 Juncos, a dozen or more
Fox Sparrows & half a dozen Song Sparrows
about the Farm all day mostly in orchard.
& in Cedar Park. Lesser numbers of all
three species at Ritchie place. Only a few 
visited our seed bed. Fox Sparrows
singing freely & gloriously at times.
A pair of Phoebees [Phoebe] in Berry Pasture the [male]
in full song; once he gave flight song.
Marked influx of Robins in late P.M.
First Flicker, silent - Berry Pas. [Berry Pasture]
About 10 or a dozen flying hither & thither
calling gladly, one singing long & well
at sunset, all local birds, apparently.
Great Blue Heron, Herring Gull & Red-shoul'd
Hawk [Red-shouldered Hawk] heard afar off. Pheasant crowing
frequently at evening.
  Spent forenoon in field across road burning
immense pile of brush. It made a 
great blaze & the fire ran half over field.
Heeled in strawberry plants in P.M.
Strolled about Farm & Ritchie pl. [Ritchie place] at sunset.