Concord.
Ther [Thermometer] Monday, Oct. 21, 1918 [October 21, 1918] Wea [Weather]
Brilliantly clear & comfortably warm
- or cool - with fresh, bracing W. [west] wind.
One Butterfly (a Cabbage) on wing.
Autumnal coloring mostly gone by
as to its earlier stages while the later
ones bid fair to be disappointing for
the oak foliage is turning a dull russet
& already shedding from many of the
trees.
  A Catbird on well curb at breakfast
time. Ten or a dozen Juncos & 4 Robins,
with 2 or more Juncos, also came 
about dooryard & 5 Bluebirds flew low
over it, calling plaintively. At Ritchie
place a young Song Sparrow warbling faintly,
a Titlark & 5 Bronzed Grackles on
wing over cornfield. 2 Jays near it.
2 Grass Finches in an apple tree,
a Canada Nuthatch in red pines.
  Spent day at Ritchie place with
Burbank, Zeph, George & Gilbert, picking
yellow corn (52 bushels). I worked as hard
as any of the rest & nearly as long
enjoying it hugely but getting very tired.

Concord.
Ther [Thermometer] Tuesday, Oct. 22, 1918 [October 22, 1918] Wea [Weather]
Fine
A crystal clear day, absolutely cloudless
with warm sunshine & cool N.W. [northwest] wind.
One yellow Butterfly on wing.
  Small birds rather scarce again.
4 Robins, a Song Sparrow & at least one
White-throat [White-throated Sparrow] in our dooryard, all the
Robins bathing at sunset. At Ritchie pl. [Ritchie place]
7 Goldfinches. 2 Song Sparrows & a gray
Purple Finch, eating sunflower seeds near
George's camp. 3 Blue Jays stealing
corn, a White-bellied Nuthatch in a 
big hickory, 80 migrating Crows (counted)
streaming S.W. [southwest] high in air & keeping
perfect silence, at 2 P.M. A few local
ones, noisy as usual, among them
the bird that calls ca-car
  Spent day at Ritchie place picking
corn with Burbank George & Zeph
& Gilbert [Robert A. Gilbert] part of forenoon. We
got 63 bushels. Gilbert went to
Cambridge in P.M. taking to C. [Caroline Brewster]
2 pints of strawberries & 2 of raspberries