Rutherford [Rutherford, New Jersey] to Cambridge.
Ther. [Thermometer] THURS. SEPT. 7, 1911 [Thursday, September 7, 1911] Wea. [Weather]
Fair
Forenoon sunny & warm. Afternoon
cloudy & cool with East wind at Boston.
Left Rutherford at 8.30 and took
10.02 train from New York for Boston.
Read a little & looked from car windows
a good deal admiring the charmingly
picturesque scenery along the road near
the Sound in Conn.[Connecticut]. Bits of bright coloring
here & there but foliage for most part still
as green as in Midsummer. Saw a few
chestnuts which seemed dying of the dread
disease. (It is already in Stockbridge)
Saw 4 Kingfishers flying over salt creeks.
Gilbert [Robert Alexander Gilbert] met me at Black Bay. We went 
straight out to Cambridge where Nancy
had everything ready for me. Called on
Walter & Margie after supper. As I 
came back at 9.30 a Screech Owl
was wailing in our Garden.
Cambridge
Ther. [Thermometer] FRI. SEPT. 8, 1911 [Friday, September 8, 1911] Wea. [Weather]
Dull.
Cloudy with a light sprinkle of rain 
in forenoon . Very chilly with E. wind
  Spent most of day in Museum
writing letters. A man called to see me
about trading my shingled roofs & those
of Estate houses with water & fire-proof liquid
covering. I have asked him to estimate on 
cost etc. but have given him no further
encouragement. The Garden is still very
attractive with wild sunflowers, portulaca,
zinnias, marigold & Margerites [Marguerites] in bloom.
In it I saw a number of birds of which 
I identified Wilsonia pusilla ([male] with black cap,
[female] with plain greenish one) Setophaga ruticilla
(ad. [male adult] moulting] D. Striata [Dendroica striata] (2), Seiurus
naevius (1 hd. [heard]) Spinus tristis ([male & female] ad. [adults] with 
4 fully feathered young) Cyanocitta cristata 
(2). All the Warblers, except the Seiurus
were feeding together in a gray birch at
6 P.M. Spent evening in den reading