Concord.
Ther [Thermometer] FRI. SEPT. 5, 1913 [Friday, September 5, 1913] Wea [Weather]
Dull.
Mostly cloudy with intervals of
sunshine in P.M. Light E [east] to S. [south] winds.
Raining this last night with heavy
thunder shower at day break. Cool.
  Plenty of birds about house all
day but fewer mig. Warblers [migrant Warblers] than
yesterday. In one flock of about a doz [dozen]
I saw a [male] juv [juvenile] Blackburnian & an
ad. [adult] [male] Bay-breast [Bay-breasted Warbler] whose head looked
almost as black & whose breast and flanks
almost as rich chestnut as in Spring [?].
Also saw a Redstart & sev. [several] D.virens.
These Warblers kept so high in the big
elms & were so restless that I got
only imperfect sight at most of them.
With or near them were 5 King birds,
2 Orioles, a Wood Pewee (singing
freely & well at times)  & a Red eye [Red-eyed Vireo]
a House Wren & a Maryland Yl.Throat [Maryland Yellow-Throat]
singing (sotto voce for most part
but sometimes almost naturally) in
bushes front of house. Saw Black bill 
Cuckoo [Black-billed Cuckoo] in orchard. Pheasant
[croaking] noisy again after long silence.
  Spent day with Zeph & Tom working
new flower bed near barn &
pruning trees.
Concord.
Ther [Thermometer] SAT. SEPT. 6, 1913 [Saturday, September 6, 1913] Wea [Weather]
3 Deer at Ball's Hill.   Fine
Clear & cool with light E. [east] wind.
Spent day at Ball's Hill where
Zeph & Tom were carting scattered
wood to our central pile near the
larch grove. Zeph saw 3 Deer there
a buck a doe & a well grown fawn.
Their fresh tracks were everywhere
& they had bitten off many lupins.
A mixed flock including a fine
ad. [adult] [male] Blackburnian Warbler, a juv [juvenile]
Black poll, at least 12 D. virens [Dendroica virens], a
[female] Redstart & an adult [male] Tanager
in green pl. [plumage] but with black wings
& tail, spent forenoon in pines
birches & larches where we worked.
  McGrath came over river to beg me
to loan him $1000. He is badly broken
up by his son Eddie's recent death.
I told him I would consider the
matter but feared I could do nothing.
  Burbank came to farm house at 5 P.M.
I talked with him 2 hours about
taking place here as foreman.
[margin] About 4 P.M. saw 3 Great Blue Herons circling & drafting S.E. [southeast]
at immense height over the Farm. [/margin]



