Concord (Farm) - Carlisle
Ther [Thermometer] Friday, Sept. 8, 1916 [September 8, 1916] Wea [Weather]
Fine.
  Hot, humid, well-nigh windless. Altogether
a very trying day, scarce less so indeed
than the worst of those during the past
exceptionally warm & sultry summer.
Evening cooler with distant thunder
  Comparatively few birds about our farm
house. Five Cat birds [Catbirds] eating elder berries [elderberries],
several Goldfinches, old & young, calling
among sunflowers at head of lane.
"Timmy" [Brewster's dog] & I went to Pulpit Rock woods
about 10 A.M. The only bird I saw or
heard there was an adult [male] Scarlet
Tanager flitting listlessly through dead lower
branches of a pine, in full sunlight. Altho [although] in
apparently almost completed, fresh autumnal
plumage he had a broad patch of scarlet on
either side of breast (opposite shoulders) & a
smaller one on abdomen. While elsewhere, save
for jet black wings & tail - he was colored
canary yellow, deepest on back but nowhere
approaching the usual forest green. I have
one or two spring [males] similarly colored but
do not recall ever seeing such a bird in
autumnal plumage before.
  Spent most of day in house writing.
Henry [Henry Wetherbee Henshaw] & I motored, in late P.M. to
Carlisle where I saw Zeph [Zephaniah Prosser]. We also 
called on Duren but he had gone to Boston.
Six young Partridges seen in wood rd. [road] at sunset.

Concord (Farm) 
Heavy flight of Black-poll Warblers [Blackpoll Warblers].
Ther [Thermometer] Saturday, Sept. 9, 1916 [September 9, 1916] Wea [Weather] Fine
Cape May [Cape May Warbler] juv. [juvenile] [female], Blackburnian [Blackburnian Warbler] juv. [juvenile] [female].
Brilliantly clear with brisk, cool
N.W. [northwest] wind
  Very many Warblers close about our house
at 7 A.M. They were so restless & kept so high in
tall elms & other trees that I failed to identify any
of them before all departed. Two hours later
I met with what may have been the same
flock, in Pulpit Rock woods. It comprised
upwards of 50 birds at least 40 of which
were Black-polls [Blackpoll Warblers]. Besides these I certainly
recognized half a dozen D. virens [Dendroica virens], one
Bay-breast [Bay-breasted Warbler] ([female] juv [juvenile] showing no bay on flanks),
a Cape May [Cape May Warbler] ([female] juv. [juvenile], very pale & dull colored,
with obscure dark streaking on under parts),
a Blackburnian ([female] juv [juvenile], without yellow on throat
& almost uniformly grayish white beneath) a
[female] Mniotilta, a [male] juv. [juvenile] Magnolia Warbler & a
Brown Creeper. All these birds fed mostly in
white pines. They were not restless & in the clear
pure sunlight I identified almost all of them
without much difficulty. Only a few Black-polls [Blackpoll Warbler]
in Birch Field & the Run. 3 Cat birds [Catbirds] & 2
Goldfinches about our dooryard.
  Spent most of A.M. with the Warbler flock.
Mr. & Mrs. Darling called in mid P.M.
Henry motored to Concord for a game of golf with
Dexter & brought him back to sup with us.