Concord
Ther [Thermometer] Saturday, April 28, 1917 Wea [Weather]
Fair
Partly cloudy, mostly sunny, with
high & cold northerly wind.
  First noted 2 ad. [adult] White-throated Sparrows,
both exceptionally handsome birds, feeding
in garden plot front of house at 7 A.M.
Broad-wing Hawk [Broad-winged Hawk] [male] ad. [adult] soaring rather high
over orchard 11 A.M. He showed white tail zone
conspicuously. Once, for about half a minute
he hung, as it were, suspended breasting
the strong wind without wing motion or the
least perceptible drift. This "wind-hovering"
is often performed by Archibuteo & by our
Sparrow hawk but I do not remember to have
ever before seen any Buteo indulge in it.
No other birds of any especial interest
attracted my notice & very few sang
within my hearing.
  Spent forenoon with Burbank & George
in Lawrence's pasture digging ground
junipers. We got about 40, some very
attractive ones, & planted them all in
P.M. along road through Cedar Park
& on slope below orchard.

Concord
Ther [Thermometer] Sunday, April 29, 1917 Wea [Weather]
Cock Partridge "treed" Dull.
Thin cloudy with light but piercingly chill
N.E. [northeast] wind.
First noted Mniotilta varia, [male], among low
brush by pond at edge of woods below orchard
in company with a Yellow rump [Yellow-rumped Warbler], a Phoebee [Pheobe] &
2 Chickadees. A House Wren also heard singing
apparently in this same sheltered place.
Elsewhere our woods & orchards seemed almost
birdless. I saw a White-throat Sparrow [White-throated Sparrow]
bathing in our bird bath & a [female] Sapsucker in
an oak by roadside. A flock of a dozen
Juncos feeding in millet patch. A 
Flicker, several Robins, a Purple Finch
& a Vesper Sparrow almost only birds singing
freely.
  A cock Partridge treed by "Timmy" at edge of
Birch Field alighted on a dead oak branch where
I had open view of him within 20 yds. He sat
absolutely motionless, very erect, with neck
up stretched to surprising length & very slender,
head looking like a brown knob with exact crest.
I could see no trace whatever of his ruffs.
An hour later I started him from the next tree.
  Walked to Birch Field with "Timmy" at
9 A.M. & spent two hours there or late P.M.
clearing brush from paths. Tim started Rabbit.
Spent most of day in house writing letters.