Concord
Ther. [Thermometer] Mon. [Monday] Sept. 5, 1910 [September 5, 1910] Wea. [Weather]
Dull.
Cloudy with light S.W. [Southwest] to S.E. [Southeast] wind
and occasional showers of misty rain.
Very warm & sultry.
  Bensen & Harry worked all day
on the boat pit excavating a lot of
dirt and laying about a rod of wall
at a depth of about 4 ft. [feet] below the 
surface embedded in alluvial mud
we found a number of fairly sound
roots of the Buttonwood or Plane Tree
of rather large size. I was with
these two men all day. None of 
the others came. At evening I
walked through Pine Park & over
Pine Ridge. Heard two Tanagers
calling. There seemed to be no
Warblers about to-day & birds 
of all kinds are exceedingly scarce.

Concord
Ther. [Thermometer] Tues. [Tuesday] Sept. 6, 1910 [September 6, 1910] Wea. [Weather]
Dull.
Cloudy with light S.E. [Southeast] wind. Thunder
shower at evening. Rather cool all day.
  All the men came to-day & I
had a busy time looking after &
directing their work. Pat lugged
stone for the masons who nearly
finished the walls of the canoe vault.
Bensen & Harry worked in the
boat pit laying stone walls etc.
I saw 7 Barn Swallows and 3
Chimney Swifts flying over the river
and a brown Marsh Hawk beating
the meadow on the Bedford shore.
The woods seemed barren of bird life.
I heard a Red-eye singing feebly
at sunrise & later a Dend. virens [Dendroica  virens]
chirping. A Swamp Sparrow sang once
& a Flicker shouted once.
  C. [Caroline Brewster] writes that Mrs. Thayer is better &
that she herself hopes to start for Vermont
to-morrow.