Concord.
Ther. [Thermometer] Fri. [Friday] Sept. 9, 1910 [September 9, 1910] Wea. [Weather]
Fair
Partly cloudy with strong W. [west] to
N.W. [northwest] wind. Just agreeably cool.
  I spent day with Harry & Pat
working on the boat pit. We
have walled it on two sides &
dug a long easy approach to the 
water. Bensen is having a bad
time with his hand. He spent
to-day in bed. It looks like a
serious case of blood poisoning.
At 5 P.M. I paddled up river
to the Lagoon where I spent half
an hour or more. The marshes
seemed almost utterly barren of bird
life. I started two Bitterns & heard a
Swamp Sparrow chirping - that 
was about all. Pat brought me a
live Night-hawk to-day. He picked
it up last evening on railroad track.
I suppose it struck a telegraph
wire for one wing was broken at the 
base of the humerus.
[margin]Heard a Gr. Crested Flycatcher [Great Crested Flycatcher] calling on Holden's Hill, 5 P.M.[/margin]

Concord.
Ther. [Thermometer] Sat. [Saturday] Sept. 10, 1910 [September 10, 1910] Wea. [Weather]
Fine
Brilliantly clear with light
easterly winds. Cool.
  Spent day at Ball's Hill
working with Harry & Pat. We
finished with the boat pit and
let the river into it about noon.
The entire afternoon was devoted to
grading the soil we have taken out
and to clearing up debris.  
  Altogether we have accomplished
much the past week & we should
have done still better but for Bensen's
misfortune. He is still suffering
greatly from his hand & has had
no sleep for three nights past.
  At 4.30 I crossed the river &
spent an hour near the stone boat
house there. A white and a brown
Marsh Hawk passed. I squeaked up
the brown one within easy gun range.