Concord - Cambridge.
Ther [Thermometer] TUES. SEPT. 23, 1913 [Tuesday, September 23, 1913] Wea [Weather]
Fine
Clear & warm with fresh
W. [west] wind.
  To Cambridge for day leaving
Farm at 8 in Jim Melvins big
car. He & Mrs. M. [Mrs.Melvin] joined me at
Concord. We had a delightful 
run down. Found that Percy
had only planted a portion of
my winter bulbs. He & I with
John Sheehan potted the remainder
of them. Called at Almys to
leave peaches & saw Helen & Betty [Helen & Betty Almy].
Left some also at Mrs [Mrs. Blatchfords?]
for Mrs Scudder. Voted at noon
Percy bought lunch for me.
Robin, Chickadee, 2 Black-polls [Blackpoll Warblers],
Water Thrush, Junco, 3 White-throats [White-throated Sparrows]
& a Jay in the Garden. Returned
to Concord by 5.05 train to Bedford
& trolley car thence to village where
Gilbert [Robert Alexander Gilbert] met me. Usnea Warbler
in full song at Farm 7.45 A.M.
Concord (Farm)
Big migration. Country flooded with birds
Ther [Thermometer] WED. SEPT. 24, 1913 [Wednesday, September 24, 1913] Wea [Weather]
Fine
Orange crown Warbler[Orange-crowned Warbler], 2 Lincoln's F. [Lincoln's Finches]
Brilliantly clear & just comfortably warm
with little or no wind. A rarely perfect day.
  Spent forenoon out of doors rambling about
Farm orchard & woodland seeing only a few 
birds & no Warblers save 6 Blackpolls [Blackpoll Warbler], an
Usnea [Usnea Warbler] & a [female] Blackburnian [Blackburnian Warbler] together in birches.
  Mrs. Melvin came down twice, once for peaches,
once to show Mrs. Suter the place.
Smith Dexter came at noon for dinner.
  Just after it (i.e. at 12.45) we strolled down
the lane to Ritchie place. To my surprise
we found birds everywhere in very unusual
numbers & in the very places barren of them
this forenoon. Realizing that a great flight had
come in from somewhere during interim we
spent remainder of afternoon in covering
as much likely ground as possible, walking
via Birch Field to & around Ball's Hill &
back same way. Rarely if ever before in
autumn have I found such migrants
in such immense numbers & so widely &
[evenly?] distributed. They were literally
everywhere in every kind of cover but
most numerous in gray birches which
swarmed with them. In all we must
have seen upwards of 200 Black-polls [Blackpoll Warblers],
50 White-throated Sparrows, 30 or 40 
Yellow-rump Warblers [Yellow-rumped Warblers] & at least a dozen
Thrushes mostly Swainson's with 1 Bicknell's [Bicknell's thrush].
Of rarer kinds we saw in Birch Field
an Orange crown Warbler [Orange-crowned Warbler], & a typical D.
palmarum [Dendroica palmarum] with 3 or 4 D. [hypochrysia?] ;
in Berry Pasture 2 Lincoln's Finches
at first in alders, later on [?] muddy
shore of pond. 3 Redstarts & a few [female]
Magnolia [Magnolia Warblers] & a juv. [juvenile] [male] Blackburnian [Blackburnian Warbler] were
seen. Dexter heard Warblers & Thrushes &
I Warblers migrating in unusual
numbers last night (clear & calm )