Concord
Ther [Thermometer] Tuesday, Oct. 15, 1918 [October 15, 1918] Wea [Weather]
32 [degrees], 60 [degrees] Fine
Brilliantly clear with keen, dry
N.W. [northwest] wind. Water froze over night,
a few Butterflies out at noon. Typical
cool October day.
  30+ Juncos in millet, 5 Robins in 
dooryard & 10 in Howe pasture,
Hermit Thrush in run, several Yellow-
rumps [Yellow-rumped Warbler], 2 Black-polls, [female] Pheasant
in field front of house, 25+ Crows,
doubtless migrants, circling about
Holden Hill, young Song Sparrow
singing brokenly in lane, several Jays
in Ritchie cornfield & elsewhere.
Deciduous trees now largely bare.
Few save oaks retain green foliage
Grass fields still emerald green &
spangled with yellow hawkweed with
yellow Butterflies about it. Most of
our cultivated flowers frosted but some
dahlias, Zinnias & salvia near house, still safe.
Spent entire day out of doors, working near
house in forenoon in afternoon going to
Pine Hill where Biggi was loading wood
to take to Cambridge. In trying to reach
some at Davis Hill he mired his truck
& lost most of afternoon thereby.

Concord
Ther [Thermometer] Wednesday, Oct. 16, 1918 [October 16, 1918] Wea [Weather]
Fair
Light rain before daybreak. Early morn 
cloudy & misty. After that sunny, calm
& very warm all day. Sunset hour of
heavenly serenity with Robins calling
sweetly in the orchard & Sparrows among
ripening millet.
  The most interesting bird noted today 
was a Winter Wren. His tic notes came
to my ears at 9 A.M. from shrubbery near
the poultry yard. At 5 P.M. I started him
from a flower bed at east end of house
whence he flew low over the lawn.
Scattered Robins flitting to & fro all day.
A dozen or more Juncos seen & at
least one White-throat [White-throated Sparrow] heard. A Downy [Downy Woodpecker]
& a Nuthatch in our elms. Not many
Crows & no Jays.
  Spent day working with all three
men about farm buildings, clearing up
rubbish, repairing poultry fences etc.
Reginald Heber Howe called in P.M.
for a bushel of greening apples & paid
me 1.50 for them.