Wolfeboro - Boston - Cambridge - Concord.
Ther [Thermometer] Wednesday, Sept. 23, 1914 [September 23, 1914] Wea [Weather]
94 [degrees] Orange-crowned Warbler, Fine
Sapsucker - Starlings
Clear, calm, intensely hot. Terrible drought.
Flowers wilting, leaves drying up on may trees.
  Left Wolfeboro by 7.05 A.M. train with
Mrs. Haley who got off at Havrell. I
reached Boston at 10.30 went direct to
office, had long talk with Arthur E. [Arthur Estabrook],
lunched with him & Darling at Young's,
& went out to Cambridge about 1.30.
Garden drought-stricken since I last
saw it on 19th. Many trees fast shedding
crisp-brown leaves which strew the ground.
Only a few birds. Among them a very 
tame Orange-crowned Warbler, positively
identified in seckel pear tree where it was
busily picking off insects (Aphidae?) from
leaves. A rather yellow specimen with faint
superciliary stripe. Sluggish of motion & so
fearless that it kept on feeding when I
advanced directly under it & then came flitting
& hopping down through branches to perch
within five feet of my face to gaze at me
curiously. Chirp sharp, metallic & almost
exactly like a Tennessee Warbler. Watched it 10 min [minutes]
Found young [male] Sapsucker in Jungle (on locusts &
canoe birches). Saw 4 Starlings fly over high
eastward. 2 Robins, 4 Jays, Peabody bird hd. [heard]
  Started for Concord at 3.30 & reached
Farm about 4.45 after stopping at Lex. [Lexington].
Saw young [male] Pheasant in road. Much
brilliant maple foliage in Bedford swamp.
Full song once from ad. [adult] [male] Indigo bird at
Farm.

Concord (Farm)
Ther [Thermometer] Thursday, Sept. 24, 1914 [September 24, 1914] Wea [Weather]
94 [degrees] Fine
  Clear & intensely hot with light
southerly breeze. All vegetation suffering
terribly from drought but tree foliage less
affected here than in Cambridge.
 
  In Birch Field, at 8 A.M., I found
very many birds. At least 25 Juncos & 20
White-throated Sparrows were assembled
there in tops of seed-bearing gray birches
& with or near them were 2 Towhees ([females])
& 2 Brown Thrashers. Canada Nuthatches
were whining not far off & a Winter 
Wren showed itself for a moment in a 
leafless bush over an old stone wall.
No Warblers save a single Yellow-rump [Yellow-rumped Warbler]
were met with there or elsewhere except
near farmhouse where a Pine Warbler
sang feebly a few times. Heard full
flight song of Ovenbird at sunset.
Jays numerous & noisy in acorn laden
oaks. Saw a Thrush but failed to identify it.
No Peabody birds near house.
  Spent most of day in doors writing.
Walked to Birch Field with Tim at morn
& eve.