Cotuit.
Wea. [Weather] Sat. [Saturday] Aug. 31, 1901 [August 31, 1901] Ther. [Thermometer]
  Partly cloudy - cool - wind S.E. [southeast]
  After breakfast Almy took me out
sailing in the bay. With C. [Caroline] we also walked
around his place of 32 acres. Started a
Partridge & heard a Mniotilta singing.
In P.M. C. [Caroline], Mrs Almy, Almy & I
drove to Osterville & beyond. Stopped at
the Baxters' & saw the Captain, Mrs. B. [Baxter]
Miss Fanny & Miss Minnie. They were
giving a pic-nic fair for a benefit of the
town library. Got home at 7 P.M.
Wea. [Weather] Sun. [Sunday] Sept. 1 [September 1, 1901] Ther. [Thermometer]
  Cloudy with light rain 10 A.M. to 5 P.M.  
  After breakfast Almy & I rowed C. [Caroline] over
to Baxter's Point. The Captain met us 
there & together we tramped all over his
100 acres. He asks $12,000 for the land which
is varied & beautiful. Blazing Star &
garden asters abundant. Saw several
Green Herons, an Osprey & an Eagle. Terns
flying over the water & land.
  Spent P.M. in house smoking & talking.
C. [Caroline] & I walked along Pine Needle road at
6 P.M.
Cotuit - Boston - Lancaster.
Wea. [Weather] Mon. [Monday] Sept. 2, 1901 [September 2, 1901] Ther. [Thermometer]
  Clearing - warmer.
  C. [Caroline] & I left Cotuit at 9 & West Barnstable
at 10.30 A.M. The drive to station very
pleasant. Reached Boston at 1.30 P.M., dined
in station & took 2.30 P.M. train
for Clinton reaching Lancaster at 4 P.M.
Wrote a few letters & then walked
across the fields opposite the house.
A few Swifts flying about.
Wea. [Weather] Tuesday 3 [September 3, 1901] Ther. [Thermometer]
  A.M. clear; P.M. cloudy. Cool - wind E. [east]
  With C. [Caroline] took Larry to walk in A.M. through Cemetery
Lane. Wrote letters & worked a little on
Camb. [Cambridge] Birds. In late P.M. walked alone
to the meadow behind the Cemetery.
The Crow Blackbirds crossed it at 5.40 - 5.45
in four flocks of about 125, 75, 50 & 50 birds.
Their roost is in some dense maple woods on 
E. [east] side of meadow. Robins began flying at
6.10 P.M. Only about 40 or 50 passed over
the meadow. Some alighted in maple swamp
at its edge, others in woods on other side
of road where I have seen them going before.
Thus they seem to have two roosts near
together (about 200 yds. [yards] apart) They
[margin]were disturbed, however, by a man
who fired three shots at a dog near the upper
roost.[/margin]