Concord - Boston - Cambridge.
Ther [Thermometer] SAT. SEPT. 13, 1913 [Saturday, September 13, 1913] Wea [Weather]
Ford car bought.   Fine.
Clear & warm changing to cooler
with rising N.W. [northwest] wind.
  In the little "Cadillac" Gilbert [Robert Alexander Gilbert] &
I took our last ride this morning
leaving it for George, who has bought
it for $50, at the Concord garage
& taking the 8.06 train for Boston
where we spent most of forenoon
buying & otherwise arranging for a
Ford 5 seated car. Mr. Stephens
took us first to State House to
transfer my license & thence to
Cambridge where I lunched in
Museum & then arranged with Percy
about potting bulbs etc. At 4 P.M.
Gilbert & a demonstrator arrived
with our new car in which we three
rode to Concord in 55 minutes
Gilbert running it all the way. 
Reached the Farm about 6.
Whippoorwill sang a few notes at 6.27.
Concord.
Ther [Thermometer] SUN. SEPT. 14, 1913 [Sunday, September 14, 1913] Wea [Weather]
Fine
  Clear & cool with fresh N.W. [northwest] wind.
  Marked scarcity of birds. Noted 
only two Warblers, a Black poll [blackpoll warbler] in
orchard, a juv. [juvenile] [male] Maryland Yel.-throat [Maryland Yellow-throat]
in bed of flowering zinnias. A few 
Chippies [Chipping Sparrows] & one Song Sparrow, Indigo
Bird juv. [juvenile] [Indigo bunting juvenile] fluttering, about noon, against
closed windows of back [lower?] room of
our house. It kept this up at intervals
for fully 10 minutes. Sometimes it
would cling to sash & tap glass loudly
with its bill. At 1 P.M. it came
to a window of lower front room
& fluttered there for a moment.
At evening a Whippoorwill sang thrice
west of Berry Pasture & a Swainson's 
Thrush called in the run.
  Spent most of day picking big, luscious
Crawford peaches, several bushels.
Duren sprayed [?] in A.M.
Called on Miss Amy Hudson in Ritchie
house 6 P.M. She is a sad [wreck?]