Wea. [Weather] Wed. [Wednesday] Oct. 2, 1901 [October 2, 1901] Ther. [Thermometer]
  Partly cloudy; warm; heavy rain
8-10 P.M.
  Left Lancaster at 7.30 for Concord.
Drove down to Ball's Hill. Spent
remainder of day working in woods
on Pine Ridge with Pat & [and] Hansen. We
finished cutting out a wood road which
I began last August & [and] hauled out all the
brush. The autumn coloring is fine along
the river but in its first stage still.
Small birds rather numerous.
Wea. [Weather] Thursday 3 [October 3, 1901] Ther. [Thermometer]
  Early morning cloudy & [and] raining. Rest of
day clear & [and] warm.
  Spent A.M. with Hansen cutting out
the river path between Bensen's Knoll & [and]
the Barrett Meadow. In P.M. Pat
Hansen & [and] I ploughed a road through
Pine Park. Sunset clear & [and] beautiful.
Black Polls numerous still. Saw a
Cat Bird & [and] a [female] Marsh Hawk. Guns
fired 8 or 10 shots on the Snipe grounds.
An immense Blackbird roost at Beaver
Dam Lagoon. The birds all in just after 
sunset. Judging by their calls there must
have been about 200 Rusties & [and] over 50
Bronzed Grackles.
Concord  Lancaster  
Wea. [Weather] Fri. [Friday] Oct. 4, 1901 [October 4, 1901] Ther. [Thermometer] 
  Brilliantly clear with N.W. [northwest] wind.
Cool at morning & [and] evening, warm at noonday.
  Spent entire day with Hansen & [and] Edward
Mc.Grath [Edward McGrath] (who began working for me to-day)
in Pine Park working on the roadways
which we are making there. At 5 P.M.
paddled up to Beaver Dam Lagoon to
investigate the Blackbird roost. Saw
about 300 birds come in. A "Dipper" swimming
in the river off the cabin this evening. 8
Black Ducks passed S. [South] at 5 P.M. A
Great Horned Owl hooting on Holden's Hill
at sunset.
Wea. [Weather] Saturday 5 [October 5, 1901] Ther. [Thermometer]
  Clear & [and] cool with light N.W. [northwest] wind.
  Left cabin at 7.20 took 7.50 electric to
Concord & [and] 8.35 train from Concord to
Clinton, thence by electric to Lancaster. 
Found C. [Caroline] & [and] E.R.S. [Elizabeth R. Simmons] in the cottage.
Took up 25 roses to C. [Caroline] for this 25th
anniversary of our first meeting. We took
a drive with Dando along the Shirley road
before lunch & [and] after lunch a walk through
Cemetery Lane. I returned to Concord
on 3.15 train. George V. Leverett came
up on 5.25 train to pass Sunday.
Florida Gallinule shot by Raymond [?]