Concord (Farm) Labor Day.
Ther [Thermometer] Monday, Sept. 7, 1914 [September 7, 1914] Wea [Weather]
Purple Clematis Fine
Clear & warm with westerly wind
light in forenoon, rising almost to a
gale in late afternoon & becoming
decidedly cool at evening.
  Spent forenoon with Zeph & George
working on new road through
cedars at foot of lane. A few
Warblers there feeding in birches.
Identified a Chestnut-sided [Chestnut-sided Warbler] [female] juv [juvenile],
a young Black-poll [Blackpoll Warbler] & a Redstart
in [female] pl. [plumage]; also several D. virens.
Henry [Henry W. Henshaw] went to Concord to play
golf with Charlie Carter.
  The Melvins came down in
early afternoon. After they had
departed (about 4 P.M.) Henry & I 
started for a walk to Birch Island
where we found a superb cluster
of Iron Wood in full bloom & not
far off (on south side of Lawrence's
Pine Island a single cluster of
Purple Clematis, the first I had ever
seen near Concord. Noticed only a 
few birds among them 2 ad. [adult] Yellow-
rumps [Yellow-rumped Warbler], [male] & [female] in full moult.
Concord - Cambridge - Concord
Ther [Thermometer] Tuesday, Sept. 8, 1914 [September 8, 1914] Wea [Weather]
Heavy flight mig. Warblers Fine
Clear & cool with high N.W. [northwest] wind.
  Spent forenoon in Cedar Park as I shall
hereafter call the territory at the foot of our
lane where we are opening up cart paths
 & vistas through the Cedar groves lying
between the Run & our cultivated land.
Feeding in birches along edge of Run were
scattered warblers of which I positively 
identified Bay breast [Bay-breasted Warbler], [female] ad. [adult] & [female] juv [juvenile;
Blackburnian [Blackburnian Warbler], [male] ad. [adult] & [female] juv. [juvenile]; Redstart 2 in [female] pl. [plumage]
Saw also a [female] Tanager & a Red-eye [Red-eyed Vireo].
The Bay-breasts [Bay-breasted Warbler] kept close together in low
shrubbery. I saw the ad. [adult female] (which showed
a little chestnut on flanks) eat a berry of
Viburnum lentago and the young bird (which had
clay colored flanks) imposition the old one
for food. William Ames with me part of time.
Henry returned from Bensen's at noon with
the report of having encountered a mixed flock
of at least fifty Warblers in Birch Field.
He saw among others an ad. [adult male] Bay-breast [Bay-breasted Warbler],
a Blackburnian [Blackburnian Warbler], a Chestnut sided [Chestnut-sided Warbler] & 2
Nashvilles [Nashville Warbler].
  Leaving Farm at 2.10 we motored to
Cambridge where we called on Dorothy
Abbott who was out & on Sam Henshaw
whom we found at Mus. Comp Zool. [Museum of Comparative Zoology]
Saw a Barn Swallow in Bedford &
3 Sparrow Hawks together near Flagg
place beyond Waverley