Concord - Cambridge - Concord.
Ther. [Thermometer] FRI. SEPT. 23, 1910 [Friday, September 23, 1910] Wea. [Weather]
34º [34 degrees] at daybreak. Fine.
Clear & warm with light S.W. [southwest] wind
Early morning cold with hoar frost.
  To Cambridge by 8.14 train.
Called at Mrs. Scudders' to leave a basket
of peaches from the farm. Saw her &
Samuel (Bowditch). Thence to our house.
Everything in confusion there with
bricks board & lumber piles on every
hand. Masons at work on house
chimneys. New skylight in Museum
finished. Also potato closet in cellar.
  Lots of birds in Garden among them a
Gray-cheek Thrush [gray-cheeked thrush] & [female] Scarlet Tanager.
Dined at Dunster Cafe at noon &
went to Mus. Comp. Zool [Museum of Comparative Zoology] at 12.30.
Spent one hour there talking with Henshaw [Samuel Henshaw].
Returned to Ball's Hill by 2.13 train
from Arlington. Cemented steps & then
walked to Pine Ridge. Red maple 
foliage turning fast & already some in [?].
[margin] Had a pleasant letter from Rudyard Kipling to-day. [/margin]
Concord.
Ther. [Thermometer] SAT. SEPT. 24, 1910 [Saturday, September  24, 1910] Wea. [Weather]
Dull.
Cloudy & cool with fresh N.E. [Northeast] wind
which brought rain soon after dark.
A gloomy day with no interesting
experiences. I spent most of it working
with Pat, Henry & James at Ball's Hill. 
We did a variety of things most
of them in the nature of clearing up.
Connor's 2 men worked at the leaf mould
first which they finished.
  At P.M. I went to Pine Park where
I worked until nearly dark pruning
the planted pines along some of my
paths through them. As I was
returning I heard a Great Blue Heron &
presently saw the bird passing directly
over me at a great height steering due
south & evidently migrating. Heard a
Tanager near the Pine Park shed.
A second & rather heavy flight of black - polls [blackpoll warblers]..