Concord (Farm)
Ther [Thermometer] Tuesday, Sept. 15, 1914 [September 15, 1914] Wea [Weather]
Perfect
Cloudless, calm, delightfully warm.
Cicadas "frying" all day long. Tree crickets
chirping merrily at evening. Rich show
of autumn flowers - golden rod, asters,
zinnias, hawkweed, etc. Plums passing.
Grapes beginning to ripen. No peaches
this year.
Spent day with five of the men
working near the Barrett spring.
Burbank, Zeph & George cutting trees.
Manson & his men building
causeway across swamp and digging
trench for stone dam.
  Very few migrants. Saw or heard
only five or six Warblers in all,
most of them Black-polls [Blackpoll Warbler], probably,
but only two identified as such.
Partridge drumming in run. Started
a Woodcock these in nearly the
same place as on the 13th.
Gray Squirrels very scarce. Red Squirrels
much more plentiful & indeed almost
as much so as of yore. One or two
Chipmunks near house.
Concord (Farm)
Ther [Thermometer] Wednesday, Sept. 16, 1914 [September 16, 1914] Wea [Weather]
Perfect.
A duplicate of yesterday with the
same heavenly calm & beauty of earth
air & sky. Rather cool at morn & eve,
almost too warm for comfort at mid-day.
The recent frosts have done no harm
whatever on October Farm but elsewhere
including the Ritchie place - cultivated
crops of most kinds have been injured,
and of many completely ruined, by them.
  Spent entire day with the men near
Barrett spring where we almost
finished the new causeway across
the run. Burbank worked with
me through forenoon cutting out
wood roads. Little Tim kept close
by me most of the time. As we
were returning about sunset we
flushed two Woodcock near the
foot of our lane, one in the middle
of the run, the other on its northern
edge among gray birches.  
  Albert Brown & his niece found me
in P.M. near the spring. I was too busy
to pay them much attention.
[margin]Almost no Warblers and but few other birds to-day. Gr. B. Heron [Great Blue Heron] flying S [South] at eve[/margin]