Wea. [Weather] SAT. [Saturday] AUG. 19, 1905 [August 19, 1905] Ther. [Thermometer]
Clear & cool with strong N.W. [northwest]
to N.E. [northeast] winds.
  Spent most of day in 
Museum writing letters &
cheques for bills. Lizzy Fuller
& Mrs. Cobb dined with C. [Caroline] &
me on back piazza. A Red-
eyed vireo & an Oriole singing early
this morning. I took 5.01 P.M
train to Concord for Sunday
at Ball's Hill.
  Wea. [Weather] SUNDAY 20 [August 20, 1905] Ther. [Thermometer]  
  Brilliantly clear, rather cool.
  Spent A.M. roaming about near Ball's Hill.
In oak scrub in Blakemore woods found
a big mixed flock of Warblers etc.  Called
them close around me by "screeping" &
positively identified the following:
  7 Chickadees, 4 Black & white Creepers, 2
Nashville [Nashville warbler], 1 female Golden wing [Golden-winged warbler], 1 Chestnut-
sided [chestnut-sided warbler] (fall pl [plumage]) 4 Black thr. Green Warblers [black-throated green warblers],
1 Redstart (in pl. [female plumage]), 1 Oven bird,
3 Red-eyed Vireos, 1 Solitary V. [solitary vireo] 1 
Yellow throated Vireo, 1 Hairy [hairy woodpecker] & 1
Downy Woodpecker. Heard Crested
Fly Catcher in Holden Hill woods.
Walked to farm in P.M. not many
birds there. Heard Whippoorwill across
river at evening.
Wea. [Weather] MON. [Monday] AUG. 21, 1905 [August  21, 1905] Ther. [Thermometer]
  Clear and warm with light
S.E. [southeast] wind. A perfect summer day.
  Walked to farm at 8 A.M. & spent
most of day there. Dug 50 small
white pines in Birch Field to send
To Will Stone. Connors with two
men, besides Pat, working at the 
pond excavating & walling in the outside.
  The dam will be built to-morrow.
  Gilbert & I returned to Camb. [Cambridge] by 4.20
train, driving to Concord. Found C. [Caroline] better.
  We. [Weather] TUESDAY 22 [August 22, 1905] Ther. [Thermometer]
  Clear & very warm but not humid.
Light S.W. [southwest] wind. Thunder shower
at evening.
  Spent day in Museum
revising unprinted M.S. Camb Birds [manuscript Cambridge Birds]
going steadily again.
  Two Red eyes, two Yellow-throated
Vireos & an Oriole in full song
in early morning.