(C. [Caroline Brewster] returns to Camb. [Cambridge] fr [from] Lancaster) Concord
Ther [Thermometer] Wednesday, Oct. 17, 1917 [October 17, 1917] Wea [Weather]
Heavy flight Juncos & Robins. Superb.
Brilliantly clear & bracingly cool
with little or no wind. Hard frost
last night.
  A heavy migratory flight of Juncos
arrived over night. At sunrise they swarmed
close about the house. I saw them everywhere
later scattered plentifully about our farm
lands & sparingly in woodlands also.
At 8 A.M. a scattered flock of migrant
Robins appeared on wing. As they
streamed past low westward over the 
orchard I counted 50, roughly. A few
smaller birds, Bluebirds perhaps, were
intermingled with them.
  Winter Wren & Ruby Crown [Ruby-crowned Kinglet], with many
Yellow-rumps [Yellow-rumped Warbler], in Cedar Park. Sapsucker
heard tapping softly in elm. Red shoul'd
Hawk [Red-shouldered Hawk] screaming, about noon. Partridge
drumming in mid P.M., apparently in Run.
  Spent entire day out of doors, mostly
near Pulpit Rock where Zeph, George &
the Monsons worked on a new wood
road. Bensen pruning apple trees.
  C. & Miss Henders motored from
Lancaster to Cambridge this A.M.
Miss H. told me about it by tel [telephone] this evening.

Concord.
Ther [Thermometer] Thursday, Oct. 18, 1917 [October 18, 1917] Wea [Weather]
Dull.
Partly sunny, largely cloudy. Mild but chilly.
Light S.W. [southwest] wind. Light rainfall last night.
  Autumn coloring fading. Leaves falling
fast. Many maples & hickories already bare of
foliage. Birches still well clothed with
golden leaves.
  Cedar Park alive with little birds
mostly Yellow-rumps [Yellow-rumped Warbler], Juncos & White throats [White-throated Sparrow],
among these Ruby crowned Kinglets and
a Yellow Palm Warbler besides at least
5 Robins. Most of these birds also visited
the lane, where I saw 4 Ruby-crowns
together in a barberry bush. They also
came into the dooryard (less numerously)
where a Chippy [Chipping Sparrow] appeared with them.
A big fruiting Chestnut in the Run
was thronged with Jays all day. They
seemed to be getting its nuts.
Heard a Flicker shouting feebly on Oak Hill.
  Spent most of forenoon in house.
Timmy treed 2 Gray Squirrels, soon after
dinner, in big hickory in Cedar Park. I
killed both with 22 cal [calibre] rifle one in hickory
by very different shot for it was in very top
of tree swayed by wind. The other was lower 
in a birch. Fired six times at them.