Concord - Cambridge - Boston - Concord
Ther [Thermometer] Saturday, Oct. 3, 1914 [October 3, 1914] Wea [Weather]
Perfect.
Clear, calm, almost uncomfortably
warm.
  Leaving the Farm at 8 A.M. Gilbert [Robert A. Gilbert]
& I motored to Cambridge where he left
me at Harvard Square to have hair cut.
As we crossed Carlisle Bridge I saw
a Pied-billed Grebe floating on the
glassy surface of the river just below the
bridge & a Kingfisher flying over it.
Reached our house at 10.30 C. [Caroline Brewster] & E.R.S. [Elizabeth R. Simmons]
there. The latter gone to Lancaster this
P.M., the former not until Monday.
The Garden alive with birds. Upward
of a dozen White-throated Sparrows &
a [female] Towhee in grape arbor. House Wren
flew up from ground in young grape vine.
Black-poll [Blackpoll Warbler], 2 Robins & 2 Jays. Sapsucker
[male] juv. [juvenile] in big willow Goldfinch [female] ad [adult] in 
sunflowers. No killing frost there yet
C., Lizzy Fuller & I went in town at
noon to lunch at Twentieth Century. Several
war refugees gave experiences in Germany etc.
Back to Cambridge by 3.30 Motored
to Farm 4-5.15. Too warm for overcoat.
Concord (Farm & Ball's Hill)
Ther [Thermometer] Sunday, Oct. 4, 1914 [October 4, 1914] Wea [Weather]
Muskrats in our pond. Perfect
Clear, calm, very warm & summer like.
 Red maple aut. coloring [autumn coloring] about at its
height. Less fine than usual although some
trees are very brilliant. Poison ivy dull.
Magnolia Warbler [female] juv. [juvenile] in brush near
her house. Ruby-crown Kinglet [Ruby-crowned Kinglet] chattering
in lane. Only a few Warblers & those
mostly Yellow rumps [Yellow-rumped Warbler].
  Spent early part of forenoon getting
ready for Mr. & Mrs. Darling & Mr. & Mrs.
Galloupe who came by motor car at
11.30 & remained until 4.30. Took
them about farm before dinner & before 
& after it played some choice Victrola
music which delighted them all.
We started for Ball's Hill in Darling's
car at 2 P.M. I showed them
the cabins & took them all about 
the hill. On way back we all alighted
at Bensen's & walked up through
Birch Field. Visiting pond in Berry Pas [Berry Pasture]
later found its margin marked everywhere
with fresh tracks of Muskrats & two of their
paths leading back to apple trees in field.