Concord.
Ther [Thermometer] Saturday, Nov. 2, 1918 [November 2, 1918] Wea [Weather] 
36 [degrees], 54 [degrees] Fine
Clear & cool with strong, chill N.W. [northwest]
wind. Sunshine warm in sheltered places
but wind swept ones were not pleasing
to linger in long.
  25 Juncos, flitting hither & thither
through dooryard & orchard, or chasing
one another in sport through leafless
tree tops, or rising in quick succession
from beds of millet, were almost the
only birds that attracted my notice
about the farm. Indeed the only others
were a Downy [Downy Woodpecker] and migrating flights
of Robins & Crows. Of the former a flock
of about 25 passed low over the orchard at
7 A.M. heading S.W. [southwest] They were followed 
half an hour later by some 40 Crows.
  I spent forenoon at Ball's Hill with
Gilbert [Robert A. Gilbert] & Zeph removing some of the last
things from dismantled cabins. No bird
life whatever there. Rand & three other
gunners passed in boats. They shot 2
Pheasants & 3 Black Ducks yesterday &
flushed a Snipe this morning.
  I worked out doors near house all P.M.

Concord. Heavy flight of Juncos.
Ther [Thermometer] Sunday, Nov. 3, 1918 [November 3, 1918] Wea [Weather]
29 [degrees], 52 [degrees] Shrike attacks Sparrow. Fine.
Clear with strong, cold N.W. [northwest] wind. Fields
white with hoar frost at sunrise. Our
ever-bearing strawberries continue to ripen.
St. Regis raspberries about gone. Last of
the tomatoes served this noon.
  Big flight of Juncos 100+ with 2 Fox
Sparrows in millet at Farm, 50+ & another
Fox S. [Fox Sparrow] in cornfield at Ritchie pl. [Ritchie place].  A
Robin in orchard, 10 others in roadside field
near Carlisle line. Downy [Downy Woodpecker] in dooryard.
Creeper in red pine grove next Ritchie place.
  Shortly before sunset I flushed a swarm 
of Juncos from orchard millet patch. They
scattered over rye stubble beyond. Here a young
very brown Shrike pounced suddenly on one
of them missing it narrowly. He then flew
into an apple tree where, a moment later, a
Fox Sparrow perched within a yard of him &
eyed him without apparent fear. He dove at
it instantly thro thick branches & again missed his
mark - after which I saw him no more.
  Soon after breakfast Gilbert [Robert A. Gilbert] motored me to
Duren's where I bought (for 2.00) a remarkably
handsome Bantam rooster said to have Pheasant
blood - which I do not credit. We next called on
Jim Long. He & his wife very cordial, happy and
prosperous seeming. Back by 10.30. Wrote letters
& strolled to Ritchie place in P.M.