Concord (Farm)
Ther [Thermometer] Tuesday, Sept. 29, 1914 [September 29, 1914] Wea [Weather]
26 [degrees] (about) Hard, killing frost. Fine
  Brilliantly clear with light west wind
Raining at 10 P.M. & calm. Hard
killing frost last night. Warm at
midday. Yet ice, from our hose spray,
remained unmelted all day long on &
under Zinnia plants in full sunlight.
They were thickly incrusted with it
this morning. George Baker reports ice
1/4 inch thick at his shack in Ritchie
place.
  Spent most of day working on
flower beds in front of house.
Walked twice to Birch Field in
A.M. Not many birds & none
of especial interest. Phelan came
up with one of his men at 10 A.M.
to lay out the plumbing of the
old farm house. He left at noon
leaving the man (Sullivan), who
began work just after dinner.
Manson & his man had almost 
finished stoning new well by road at 5.
S.O. Dexter [Smith Owen Dexter] came down & [?] & stayed
until 10 listening to Victrola records.
[margin]Henry B. Bigelow's ther. [thermometer] stood at 21 [degrees] when he looked at it at sunrise this morning
This I learned from him a walk afterwards.[/margin]
Concord (Farm)
Ther [Thermometer] Wednesday, Sept. 30, 1914 [September 30, 1914] Wea [Weather]
Cape May Warbler. Dull.
  Cloudy & mild with occasional brisk
but brief showers.
  Many Juncos & White-throats [White-throated Sparrow] flitting
about Farm & in Birch Field. Counted
50 Juncos in one flock passing house on wing.
As Gilbert [Robert A. Gilbert] & I were at dinner in front room
a [female] Cape May Warbler, accompanied by
3 Black-polls [Blackpoll Warbler], came into a snowberry
bush just under the window where
I watched her for several minutes
as she gleaned food of some kind
among beans & fruit occasionally thrusting
her sharp bill into latter in what
seemed a tentative spirit of monstration.
She was colored very like bird seen on 12th
but was even paler, grayer & more faintly
streaked beneath & showed no yellowish
anywhere save a faint tinge on rump.
  Spent most of day working out
of doors close about house. Phelans
man piping it. Mason & his men
cemented top of wall curb. I walked
to Birch Field with Tim in late P.M.
He brought a big Woodchuck to bay this
morning & seized him once by the throat.