Concord
Ther [Thermometer] Friday, Sept. 17, 1915 [September 17, 1915] Wea [Weather]
90 [degrees] Boston Ezra Thayne's death Fair
86 [degrees] Concord
Forenoon sunny with fresh W. [west]
breeze. Afternoon cloudy, calm,
intensely hot & humid. Altogether
another very trying day albeit
less so than yesterday & Wednesday.
  Hardly any birds seen or heard
about our place. 7 [in a flock] Cedar birds in
hickory, a House Wren in wood pile,
a Robin calling, an unidentified
warbler chirping. Crows & Jays
heard at a distance.
During a motor trip in P.M.
saw several flocks of Bluebirds
& Chippies [Chipping Sparrow] along roadside in
Nine Acre Corner region.
  Spent most of day supervising
work of men, picking peaches,
talking with Henry. He & I motored
to Pantry Brook Meadow in P.M.
Saw large bed of strawberries loaded
with ripe fruit. The Advertiser
brought startling news of Ezra Thayne's
death by drowning Tuesday night.
Probably suicide. Had brief telephone
[margin]talk with Sarah Ames at 9 P.M. Offered my services but she said
there was nothing I could do.[/margin]

Concord (Farm)
Ther [Thermometer] Saturday, Sept. 18, 1915 [September 18, 1915] Wea [Weather]
Fine
Clear & comfortably cool with
fresh N.W. [northwest] breeze.
  Two young Black-poll Warblers
in apple orchard. A Black-throated
Green [Black-throated Green Warbler] with 7 Chickadees & 3 Juncos,
in Birch Field. Robin & Nuthatch
calling near house. Red shouldered
Hawks & Jays screaming in woods.
Crows cawing lustily at sunrise.
Pheasant calling at sunset.
One Song Sparrow near house.
These were nearly if not quite
all the birds seen or heard by me.
  We breakfasted at 6.30 to
enable Henry to take 7.28 train
for Boston & 9 A.M. train thence
to Bethel. He seemed nervous
& overwrought, evidently dreading
the journey & worrying about it.
  Burbank & I picked peaches in
A.M. Gilbert [Robert A. Gilbert] sold them to Davis
3 bushels in all. For same I got $2.40 
per. bushel. Walked to Birch F. [Birch Field] in late P.M.