Concord.
Ther [Thermometer] Sunday, Oct. 27, 1918 [October 27, 1918] Wea [Weather]
70 [degrees] max [maximum] Fair.
Still another calm, foggy morning
preceding a sunny almost windless
and - for the season - exceptionally warm day.
Last night, also, was unseasonably mild
the ther. [thermometer] being about 60 [degrees] at 10 A.M. Field
Crickets & Tree Crickets then filled the still
air with merry chirpings. Early this
forenoon I heard a full if brief outburst
of Hyla (pickeringii) voices (they were of
spring, not autumnal, type) and later
the rolling croaking of Leopard Frogs in
the river marshes. Plenty of yellow
Butterflies on wing at noon time.
  Heavy flight of Juncos. At least 50
in our farm millet patches & 30 or more
scattered elsewhere. A White throat [White-throated Sparrow] singing
& Song Sparrow calling, near house at daybreak.
Young White-crowned Sparrow in leafless
top of small tree near barn, calling whit.
Chickadees (3 flocks) Jays (a few), Crows
(not many) & one Certhia in Ball's Hill region.
Started a Partridge in Birch F. [Birch Field], 2 in Prescott pines
To Ball's Hill via Prescott Pines & Davis H. [Davis Hill]
10.30 A.M.-1.15 P.M. Wrote letters after
dinner until 4.30 & after that
pruned grape vines.

Concord.
Ther [Thermometer] Monday, Oct. 28, 1918 [October 28, 1918] Wea [Weather]
72 [degrees] max [maximum] Fair
  Mostly cloudy & again densely foggy
in early morn. Light southerly breeze in
P.M. Warm & humid all day. Hylas calling.
  Very few birds seen or heard. A dozen
or more Juncos, several Goldfinches &
a Downy [Downy Woodpecker] were noted in or near the
dooryard. At least 2 Jays flew over
it and so did Horned Larks unseen
but evidently passing low southward 
- if one might judge of this correctly by
merely listening to their piping flight calls
as was the case with me. It happened
twice - at 8 A.M. & 2 P.M. or thereabouts.
  Spent entire day out of doors
superintending & also participating
in, farm work of various kinds.
We hauled & burnt brush, boxed
apples, etc. Biggi brought down
the last (fourth) load of lumber from
the mill. Zeph says there are 10000 ft.
of it. He & I "stooked" & piled all the
thin oak boards in P.M.