Concord (Farm)
Ther [Thermometer] Saturday, Sept. 2, 1916 [September 2, 1916] Wea [Weather] Fine
H. W. Henshaw [Henry Wetherbee Henshaw] arrives.
Clear & cooler with rather fresh
westerly wind.

  Continued scarcity of local birds
and almost total absence, apparently,
of migrants from further north.
At least eight Blue Jays screaming
long & loud in the Run at 2 P.M.,
probably mobbing something there.
They finally ceased the outcry &
flew past me, one after another, 
to westward. Two Swifts flying
high & straight southward at 8 A.M.
I saw no others through day but after
dark heard one rumbling in our parlor
flue & another in dining room flue.
  Spent forenoon close about house
working with George, weeding flower beds etc.
After noon dinner walked with Tim [Brewster's dog] to
the spring via Pine Slope. Henry Henshaw
arrived soon after my return. We
went with Timmy to Birch Field
just before sunset & spent evening
talking in parlor & playing Victrola.

Concord (Farm)
Ther [Thermometer] Sunday, Sept. 3, 1916 [September 3, 1916] Wea [Weather] Glorious
Young Tree Toads.
Brilliantly clear & almost frostily cool
with fresh N.W. [northwest] wind.

  Almost no birds seen or heard about
Farm to-day. In Run met with 4
Chickadees, 2 [male] Canada Nuthatches & an
adult [male] Red-start, in Birch Field
with a Magnolia Warbler juv [juvenile] & an
adult [female] Black-throated Green [Black-throated Green Warbler] followed
by a bob-tailed young bird still in 
first plumage which she fed repeatedly.

  The little artificial pond encircling the
big boulder in front of our house is
swarming with Frogs mostly R. clamitans [Rana clamitans]
of various sizes, one of which a garter
Snake was swallowing two days ago.
There are also at least a dozen young
Tree Toads just changing from tadpole stage
with short remnants of tails. All are almost
wholly bright yellowish green in dirt
closely matching that of young lettuce leaves.
Henry & I walked to Ritchie place in
forenoon, to Davis Swamp in late afternoon.
Spent rest of day in house talking.