Concord - Cambridge - Boston - Concord.
Wea. [Weather] Wed. Oct. 21, 1908 [Wednesday, October 21, 1908] Ther. [Thermometer]
  Clear with light N.W. [northwest] wind. Early
morning cold. Warmer at evening.
  Took 8.13 train. Our canal frozen
over with thin ice. Spent forenoon
in our house & Museum. Batchy [Batchelder] & Geo. Deane
[George Deane] called to discuss A.O.U. [American Ornithologists Union] plans.
A Hermit, a Chickadee, a Junco & 8 or 10
White-throats [White-throated Sparrows] in Garden. Also 5 or 6 Robins
& 5 Crows flying over. Lunched with C. [Caroline] & E.R.S. [Elizabeth R. Simmons].
Went in town at 2.30. Spent an hour
at office, bought hardware at Wilkinson's
& took 4.57 train back to Concord.

Wea. [Weather] Thursday 22 [Thursday, October 22, 1908] Ther. [Thermometer]
  Cloudless & mild. Calm most all day.
  Spent day at Ball's Hill working
on the well house with James &
Austin. We raised the roof a foot &
made other changes. Pat walked across
the river in forenoon, behind the hill
after dinner. The carpenter did not 
come yesterday or to-day. Gilbert [Robert Alexander Gilbert] went
to Cambridge to help clean Museum.
  I cooked eggs for my lunch.
  Paddled up river to lagoon at sunset. 
Marshes brown & apparently lifeless. Saw
small flock of Titlarks flying over them.

Concord
Wea. [Weather] Fri.Oct. 23, 1908 [Friday, October 23, 1908] Ther. [Thermometer]
Clear & warm with light, variable
winds (chiefly S.E to S.W. [southeast to southwest]) & long intervals
of dead calm. Smoky in afternoon.
  Spent day at Ball's Hill working
chiefly with Shaw, the carpenter, in the
new cabins. James & Austin worked all
day on the boat canal. It was
summerlike at noon & evening but cold in
early morning with ice on my roof. Saw
very few birds. Two Greebes [sic] [Grebes] in sun off
cabins at 8 A.M.

Wea. [Weather] Saturday 24 [Saturday, October 24, 1908] Ther. [Thermometer]
Cloudy & mild with light easterly winds.
  Spent day at Ball's Hill working
with the men. The carpenter practically
finished the new guest Cabin. James
worked under the new men's cabin.
Pat cleaned out the well and the
wood shed. Saw almost no birds save
a Purple Finch, A Hermit & a few Crows
& Blue Jays. Mr. & Mrs. H.B. Bigelow
called in forenoon & stayed about half an hour.
Paddled up to the Lagoon at sunset. Did not
see or hear a single bird of any kind.
Two Muskrats swimming about near me