Boston - Concord.
Ther. [Thermometer] TUES. SEPT. 13, 1910 [Tuesday, September 13, 1910] Wea. [Weather]
Fine
Clear & warm with light S. [south] wind.
  Rose at 6.30 and breakfasted
at Hotel Lenox. Took 7.51 train
for West Bedford. Found Gilbert [Robert Alexander Gilbert]
waiting for me at mouth of canal &
with him Harry Richardson. I
was talking with the latter when
a Short-eared Owl appeared within
100 yards, circling & skimming low over
the meadow very like a Marsh Hawk
& looking for prey, I thought, despite the
blazing sunshine (it was about 9 A.M.)
It circled thrice over same place & then
disappeared behind some bushes. I
saw it plainly through my glass & am
perfectly sure of the identification.
  Spent remainder of day working with
Harry & Pat on a landing at the
mouth of the boat canal for use
at low stages of water. Walked to
Pine Park at evening. Heard a
Pectoral [pectoral sandpiper] calling over meadow 3 P.M.
Concord.
Ther. [Thermometer] WED. SEPT. 14, 1910 [Wednesday, September 14, 1910] Wea. [Weather]
Dull.
Cloudy with light northerly wind.
Rather warm through middle of day.
  Spent forenoon with Harry & Pat
working on the new landings at
the entrance to our boat canal across the
river. Mr. Rock, one of the market
fishermen, came along & caught six or
eight pickerel and two bass while I was
watching him. He showed me a chub
or dace of about 1 lb. [pound] weight that he
had caught off Bensen's landing.
  At noon I walked to the Howes' where
I met by appointment Miss. Minnie B.
Hall & Mrs. Jas. Storrow [Mrs. James Storrow].They drove
me to Ball's Hill where we lunched at 1.
At 2.30 we started to walk to the farm.
I showed them my bird boxes & the old
farm house there. They left me at 4.30.
  I found our pond almost dry & the back
thickly indented with deer tracks.
Saw a Fish Hawk & a Coopers Hawk at
Ball's Hill this morning. Heard Quail at evening.