Concord (Farm)
Continued heavy bird wave
Ther [Thermometer]   THURS. SEPT. 25, 1913 [Thursday, September 25, 1913] Wea [Weather]
Bay- breast & Nashville Warbler   Fine
Clouldless [Cloudless], calm, very warm & 
summerlike. Clouds gathering at eve.
The flood of south-bound migrants
continued over to-day but they were
scarce one half as abundant as on
yesterday. About the Farm & in 
Birch Field I saw during this
afternoon upwards of 100 Blackpolls [Blackpoll Warblers]
20 Yellow - rumps [Yellow-rumped Warblers] & 25 White throats [White-throated Sparrows],
besides a Mniotilta, an Usnea W.[Usnea Warbler],
an adult(?) Bay- Breast[Bay-breasted Warbler] (with heavy
bars of bright chestnut on flanks)
2 Nashvilles [Nashville Warblers], an ultra typical D.
palmarum [Dendroica palmarum] (Birch Field) & near it a
typical D. [?]. Upward of
40 Chippins [Chipping Sparrows] in woods in peach orchard.
Spent most of A.M. motoring about 
Concord. Left peaches at the
Emersons, [Whites?] & Richardsons.
Had new skid tires put on rear [?]
Rambled about farm & woods in P.M.
Concord (Farm)
Ther [Thermometer]   FRI. SEPT. 26, 1913 [Friday, September 26, 1913]  Wea [Weather]
Fine
Sunny (but hazy) with strong S.W. [southwest]
wind. The warmest day for week or more.
Birds numerous but restless & hard 
to observe closely because of windy
weather. Many Black-polls [Blackpoll Warblers] in orchard
& shade trees near house. Usnea Warbler
singing feebly, 7 A.M. [Female] Black thr. Blue[Black-throated Blue Warbler]
in low apple tree front of house chirping
exactly like Junco. She was very tame & 
curious concerning my pole pruner at
work in tree. Once she attempted to alight 
on it when I ceased moving it for a 
moment. [Female] juv.[juvenile] Sapsucker climbing
oak tree in grove behind barn, 4 P.M.
House Wren chattering in wood pile by orchard
Six Pheasants (one ad [adult] male colchicus) in 
millet [feed?] at 6 A.M. & later.
Many White- thr. Sparrows [White-throated Sparrows] about grape vines
Spent most of day in orchard marking
branches to be cut with red paint.
The Melvins, Mr. & Mrs. & Miss Robbins
came at 3.30 & stayed an hour.