Concord
Ther [Thermometer] Friday, Oct. 19, 1917 [October 19, 1917] Wea [Weather]
70 [degrees] Death of George V. Leverett. Dull
Dark cloudy with strong S.W. [southwest] wind.
Unseasonably & oppressively warm &
humid. Torrential rain, sometime
about midnight - or perhaps later,
accompanied by thunder & lightening.
 Birds in fair numbers, mostly
Yellow-rumps [Yellow-rumped Warbler], White-throats [White-throated Sparrow] & Juncos,
with a few Robins & several Jays,
frequenting Cedar Park & our 
dooryard shrubbery. Not many 
elsewhere.
  Spent most of day in Pulpit Rock
woods & run where George & Zeph
were splitting oak wood, Burbank
hauling out long pine trunks for
a wood pile foundation, Monson &
his son digging a well for spraying
water.
  Edward Emerson telephoned me this
evening that George V. Leverett died
in Boston last night. (See
obituary notice from Bos. Advertiser
pasted on last leaf of this diary)

Concord Kingfisher devoured by Fox.
Ther [Thermometer] Saturday, Oct. 20, 1917 [October 20, 1917] Wea [Weather]
Fine
Clear & cool with fresh northerly
wind. Leaves of forest trees whirling
down in golden & crimson showers.
Blueberry bushes still well clothed & brilliant.
A second horde of migrant Juncos
just in from the North this morning.
Otherwise the bird life in & about
farm remains much the same as for
past few days. We still have Robins
White-throats [Weather], Juncos, Yellow rumps [Yellow-rumped Warbler]
& a few Chippies [Chipping Sparrow] congregating in the
dooryard attracted by the bathing
pools & by a nearby millet patch.
Saw a Yellow rump eating poison ivy berries.
  In Pulpit Rock White Pine woods, near
height of land, lying close together on
pine needle covered surface of ground in
wood road I found many feathers,
mostly wing & tail quills, of a Kingfisher
which had been bitten off near their bases
evidently by a Fox. How could he have
captured such a bird in such a place?
I have occasionally seen such a Kingfisher
in those woods, however, flying through
or low over them.
  Spent most of day in Run & Pulpit R.
woods [Pulpit Rock woods] with 4 men at work. Timmy
treed a Gray [Gray Squirrel] in a bush & I killed it with
my 22 cal. [calibre] rifle (fired ten shots)
Gilbert [Robert A. Gilbert] motored to Cambridge in A.M.