Concord.
Ther. [Thermometer] WED. SEPT. 21, 1910[Wednesday, September 21, 1910] Wea. [Weather]
Fine.
A tremendous downpour of rain
just before daybreak but the sun was
out by 8 A.M. & the remainder of day
cloudless & very warm with a light
west wind.
  Spent entire day at Ball's Hill.
Pat & James concreted the floor of
the canoe vault, Harry made a
carpenter bench, one of the Connors
men worked at the raft pit, an
other was taken ill at 8 A.M. &
went home. Pierce worked across 
the river. He brought only 2 men.
  At 5 P.M. I started out in the
open canoe. Paddled down river to
Pad Island where I saw 2 Rusty
Blackbirds. Then went up river to the
Lagoon where I saw a L.b. [long-billed] Marsh Wren
Swamp Sparrows chirping, over in trees
giving the prolonged & extremely beautiful
song of late summer & early autumn.
A Night Heron flying S.W. [southwest] [,] a [female] Sharp-
Shinned Hawk crossing river to Ball's Hill.
No Rails, no Snipe. Very few small birds
about in the woods. Got back at
6.30. Saw one Musk Rat.
Concord.
Ther. [Thermometer] THURS. SEPT. 22, 1910 [Thursday, September 22, 1910] Wea. [Weather]
Superb.
Brilliantly clear with fresh N.W. [northwest]
wind. Very cool at morning & evening
  Spent most of day at Ball's Hill.
James & Pat worked at cementing the
floor of Gilbert's [Robert Alexander Gilbert's] cabin, Harry at
the new carpenter bench, Conner's man
at the raft pit which he finished
Pierce & 4 men worked across
the river until 11 where they had
finished with all the larger trees there.
  Pat then brought all their ladders etc.
over on the raft & they began on the
big pines on Davis Hill which are
very badly infested. At 4.45 I rode
up to the farm where I had a feast
of grapes & heard a Towhee. There
were only a few birds along the river
most of them Black polls [Blackpoll warblers]. I saw no
large birds except Crows.