Concord (Farm)
Ther [Thermometer] Wednesday, Sept. 1, 1915 [September 1, 1915] Wea [Weather]
Fine
Clear & cool with light N.E. [northeast] wind.
Clouds gathering at sunset.
  Continued & indeed, increasing scarcity
of birds of almost every kind. Although
constantly out of doors from 8 A.M.
to 6 P.M. I saw less than twenty five in
all. These included 7 Chickadees,
8 Chippies [Chipping Sparrow], a Hairy Woodpecker,
two or three Crows & a cock Pheasant.
There were also two unidentified
Warblers & a [female] D. virens [Dendroica virens] & a
solitary Flicker.
  Spent most of the day with 
Monson & Zeph who worked in
the grove behind the barn cutting
down trees & moving brush.
Wild ripe blackberries in great
profusion there - also mosquitos
simply maddening towards sunset.
I was then engaged in packing 
peaches - remarkably fine ones.  
  A Mr. Ramsey called at 4.30.
He said he was seeking information
about Thoreau for a book he is writing.

Concord (Farm)
Ther [Thermometer] Thursday, Sept. 2, 1915 [September 2, 1915] Wea [Weather]
Fine
Clear, calm, very warm but not
humid; hence a delightful, summer-
like day.
  Almost no birds. Five Robins on wing,
a Barn Swallow southward -bound
high in air at 9 A.M., three Warblers
that I failed to identify flitting about in
tops of tall oaks behind barn, a mewing
Catbird near barn, a Nuthatch calling
in dooryard elms, a screaming Jay
and a Screech Owl wailing in evening
twilight were literally all the birds
I noted. No! there was one other
- an adult [male] Goldfinch that sang
full & sweet for several seconds in
mid forenoon.
  Spent practically entire day
picking sorting & packing peaches &
plums. Sent a box of them to Dan
& put up a basket for Dick (Dana).
Gilbert [Robert A. Gilbert] took another basket to
Stead Buttrick's. Albert W. Doolittle
called in P.M.