Concord (Farm)
Ther [Thermometer] Thursday, Oct. 1, 1914 [October 1, 1914] Wea [Weather]
Fine
Brilliantly clear with light northerly
wind. Comfortably warm all day.
  Only a few Warblers mostly Yellow rumps [Yellow-rumped Warbler]
with 2 or 3 Black-polls [Blackpoll Warbler] & one [female] juv. [juvenile]
Magnolia [Magnolia Warbler] at Barrett Spring. At least 
50 Juncos in Birch Field & half as
many White-throats [White-throated Sparrow] with or near them.
This was just before sunset. Just after
it I strolled through Berry Pasture &
heard Peabody Birds calling everywhere
there & one singing. Heard also the
call of a Towhee, of a Swainson's
Thrush, of several Robins & of a Catbird
Canada Nuthatches whining in pine woods
[male] juv. [juvenile] Sapsucker in apple tree in orchard
below barn. Jays noisy & numerous.
Plenty of Gray Squirrels now & a few
Reds [Red Squirrel] & Chipmunks. High blueberries
richly colored. Red maples beginning to turn.
  Spent day at Barrett Spring.
Manson, Cooper, Zeph & George working
on & near new dam. Pirece & 2 men
pruning oaks. Charly Flannery called
at 5 & asked me to lend him 15
until October 27 which I did.
[margin]C. [Caroline Brewster] returned from Williamstown to Cambridge this P.M. We talked by tel. [telephone] to-night[/margin]
Concord (Farm)
Ther [Thermometer] Friday, Oct. 2, 1914 [October 2, 1914] Wea [Weather]
Perfect
Cloudless with tender blue sky sky & scarce a
breath of wind. Deliciously warm & dry air.
"Weather-breeder" type of day.
  Teeming bird life everywhere I went. In
elms about house or in neighboring orchard trees
2 Yellow Palm Warblers, Many Yellow-rumps [Yellow-rumped Warbler],
a big flock of Peabody birds, 2 Canada Nuthatches
(drinking at bird bath), [male] juv [juvenile] & [female] juv [juvenile] Sapsuckers (on
trunk of elm) 2 Cat-birds, [Female] Towhee, 2 Robins,
Chippies [Chipping Sparrow], young Goldfinches, Jays, a Downy [Downy Woodpecker]
& a Hairy Woodpecker etc. In Pulpit Rock
pair Canada Nuthatches, Golden crests (2)
Solitary Vireo (singing brokenly)
Near Barrett Spring Mniotilta ([male] juv [juvenile]), Bay breast [Bay-breasted Warbler]
([male] juv [juvenile]), Black-throated Blue Warbler ([male] juv [juvenile] (?))
In Birch Field at least 50 Peabody birds,
perhaps half as many Junco & a few
Yellow rumps [Yellow-rumped Warbler].
(One of the Palm Warblers may have been
true palmarum. I did not see it very well).
  Spent entire day at or near Barrett Spring
where Mason finished dam, Zeph & George
got causeway in passable condition & Pierce
& I near pruned all the big oaks.
Burbank & the plumber piping house.