Concord, Mass.
1911.
March 16.
[March 16, 1911]

Wintry weather

  The weather turned cold and about four inches of
snow fell sometime last night. To-day has been 
one of the very bitterest March days I have ever known
with the thermometer ranging from 6 [degrees] to 16 [degrees] and the
wind blowing a living gale out of the N.W. [northwest] driving
the snow across the open country in wreaths so that
the fields were stripped nearly bare. Although the
sun shone bright from a cloudless sky its rays did
not melt nor even soften the snow on southern 
exposures on the south side of buildings. Verily the
Song Sparrows and Fox Sparrows have been wise to
delay their coming. The migrants already here must
have had a hard day of it. I saw nothing of any of
them. 2 Chickadees & a pair of Nuthatches came to our suet
and 2 Juncos to the seed bed. I was in the pine woods
all P.M. starting 2 Partridges & hearing Kinglets & Chickadees there.