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Wea. [Weather] SUN. AUG. 30, 1908 [Sunday, August 30, 1908] Ther. [Thermometer]
Cloudless & warm with light S.W. [southwest] wind.
Spent forenoon at Ball's Hill. Took
a walk in woods just after breakfast.
Gypsy Moth nests on almost every tree.
The oak tops & branches swarming with
young Brown tails [brown-tail moths]. Some trees dead or dying.
2 Redstarts [American Redstart Warblers], a Creeper [Brown Creeper], a Chestnut side [Chestnut-sided Warbler],
a Red eye [Red-eyed Vireo], & a Water Thrush seen. Wrote
letters from 10.30 to 1. Walked to
farm after dinner. Birch Field & Pulpit
Rock woods badly infested by Gypsy Moths.
One birch tree near spring has at least 100 nests.
Whippoorwill sang across river at evening.
Wea. [Weather] MONDAY 31 [Monday, August 31, 1908] Ther. [Thermometer]
Cloudless & warm with light E. [east] wind.
Spent day at farm walking up &
back. Pat began work there. I
was with him most of the time.
  We dug a little pond near the causeway
across the swamp on road to Ritchie place.
A mixed flock of about [200?] Warblers
in this swamp. They kept high in the
trees & I identified only a few of them.
The Gypsy Moth situation looks worse
& worse as I investigate it further. I
fear all my woods are doomed. The
pine blight is dying out, however.
[margin] Paddled up river at sunset. Noted 
only one bird, a Swamp Sparrow. 
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Wea. [Weather] TUES. SEPT. 1, 1908 [Tuesday, September 01, 1908] Ther. [Thermometer]
Clear & warm with fresh S.W. [southwest] wind.
  Spent day at farm walking up
via Pine Ridge & Davis Swamp Ridge,
returning via Holden's Hill. Worked 
with James, George & Pat in the
 little new park at rear of Ritchie 
place where we set out a lot of
hemlocks and mountain laurel from my
private nurseries. Birds of most kinds
seemed very scarce but I heard an unusual
number of Jays. Saw tracks of two Deer,
a young buck & doe, on Pine Ridge & Pine Park.
Wea. [Weather] WEDNESDAY 2 [Wednesday, September 2 1908] Ther. [Thermometer]
Cloudy & sultry with light S.W. [Southwest] wind.
Light showers at daybreak.
  Spent day at Farm working with
James, George & Pat on a dam at the
outlet of the swamp in Barrett Run.
We finished it at 4 P.M. Mr. Gould
of Blanchard & Gould, called to talk
with me about buying my woods.
We have a good peach crop at Farm
& I feast on them daily now. Very few
birds to-day. Saw fresh tracks of Greater
Blue Heron on shore of pond in Berry Pasture.
Pat saw Kingfisher there.