Concord (Farm)
Ther [Thermometer] Saturday, Sept. 25, 1915 [September 25, 1915] Wea [Weather]
Glorious
Brilliantly clear with light,
westerly wind & dry, cool,
bracing air. Altogether a perfect day.
  Not many local birds & very
few migrants. [female] Tanager in
wild grape vine clinging to elm
shading lawn. Saw the bird pluck
off & eat two of the large, ripe grapes.
A Fish Hawk, heading westward,
flew low over our orchard at 5 P.M.
At sunset a Peabody bird sang
twice, rather feebly. An Indigo bird
sang once & almost as in breeding
time - this at 3 P.M A few
Chippies [Chipping Sparrow] & Song Sparrows in 
thickets bordering cultivated land,
a Brown Creeper on elm in
door yard, Jays imitating
Buteo lineatus, Pheasant calling
at eve.
  Worked all day in flower garden
with Burbank, transplanting perennials.
Walked to Birch Field with "Tim"
at sunset.

Concord (Farm)
Ther [Thermometer] Sunday, Sept. 26, 1915 [September 26, 1915] Wea [Weather]
Violent gale Stormy
Cloudy with violent S.W. [southwest] wind storm
lasting all day and accompanied by
occasional light rain. In P.M. the
wind attained velocity of a full
gale & maintained it through evening.
In early forenoon, before it had
to blow so heavily, I had a walk
in the woods with Timmy but on
approaching there again, about 4 P.M.,
I turned back, afraid to venture
in among the storm-tossed trees.
Even the largest & stoutest oaks
were bending like grain before the
stronger blasts which threatened to 
uproot one & all of them. Such
a gale is this does occur here
once in a dozen years - at least
in Autumn. It must have driven
almost all the birds to dense covers
for I saw only a very few -
including 6 Robins, 2 Purple Finches
& what I am reasonably sure was a 
Barn Swallow flying low thro [through] garden.
Spent most of day in house
reading & writing letters.