Concord. (Farm)
Ther [Thermometer] Thursday, Aug. 31, 1916  [August 31, 1916] Wea [Weather]
Perfect.
Clear & warm with light S.W [southwest] breezes.

  Only a few birds noted - most of
these near our house, 7-8 A.M., where & 
when a Crested Flycatcher, 2 Robins,
2 Cat-birds [Catbirds], a Nuthatch of each species,
a Hairy [Hairy Woodpecker] & a Downy Woodpecker & a
House Wren were seen and two
Red-eyed Vireos heard singing rather
continuously & well. Shortly after this
I heard a third Vireo in Pulpit Rock
woods where it was apparently the
only bird as was also a Robin in
Birch Field, in mid- afternoon.
Two Indigo birds [Indigo buntings] & two Chippies [Chipping Sparrows]
in our corn field. A Kingfisher
again perched at the Berry Pasture
pond.  Timmy [Brewster's dog] startled a Partridge
in the Run. Heard a Red Squirrel 
there but have not as yet seen a
single Gray Squirrel anywhere.
  Spent most of day in or near house
copying spring notes & weeding flower beds
Walked with Tim to Pulpit Rock at 8 A.M.
[and]  to Birch Field at 4 P.M.

Concord ( Farm & River)
Ther [ Thermometer]  Friday, Sept. 1, 1916 [September 1, 1916] Wea [Weather] Perfect.
Up Concord river by boat.
  Weather like that of yesterday but a trifle
cooler with fresher, more westerly wind.
  2 adult Robins on lawn, 2 Cat-birds [catbirds] eating elder-
berries [elderberries] in door yard, House Wren singing feebly
in lane, Kingbird calling near barn, 2 Chippies [Chipping Sparrows]
& ten Bluebirds in cow pasture, [male] sharp-shin
Hawk [sharp-shinned hawk] flying low over Run, Flicker near
barn, Swifts heard in parlor & dining room
[?] at evening. Canada Nuthatch, Pulpit R.woods [Pulpit Rock woods]
7 Kingfishers (3 together in two places),
a Bittern, Night Heron & a Green Heron
started along river banks between Ball's
Hill & Flints Bridge.  Black Duck flying
low over Great Meadows, 10 A.M.
Crows only birds noted at Ball's Hill.
  Motored to Ball's Hill 9 A.M. Foliage
there thinned in places but nowhere stripped,
by gypsey larvae [gypsy moth larvae]. Vigorous young chestnut by
cabin landing badly infested by chestnut disease
here noted for first time on my land.
  Burbank rowed me up to Concord (9.15-10 A.M.)
in small Mullins boat, which we left at Boat
[Club?] house for Dr. [?] Black to use.
  Gilbert motored us back,  Practically all aquatic
vegetation in river has perished & disappeared.
Murky, lead colored water from Maynard probably
accounts for it. No lily pads & hardly any pickerel
weed, A few small fish [?] [?]. Walked about
in late P.M. when Timmy [Brewster's dog] surprised &, with my help, finally killed, a big Woodchuck at foot of orchard slope. Battle lasted fully minutes