Concord (Farm)
Ther [Thermometer] Sunday, Sept. 10, 1916 [September 10, 1916] Wea [Weather] Perfect.
Large flock of Partridges.
Brilliantly clear with light easterly
wind. Cool at morn [morning] & eve [evening], warm 
through mid day [midday] hours.
  No signs of any autumn coloring as yet.
  Very few small birds & almost no 
migrating ones. 2 Black-polls [Blackpoll Warblers] the only 
Warblers obviously coming from further 
north. A Swift seen circling low & 
Bobolinks heard twice 8-9 A.M. 
A Sparrow Hawk flying high S. [south] at 4 P.M.
  Shortly after breakfast Henry [Henry Wetherbee Henshaw] & I were
strolling along wood road on south side of 
run near Pulpit Rock when "Tim" flushed 
at least 18 Partridges, mostly young about 
2/3 grown, from within a brush grown 
area only a few yards square. A dozen
or more birds rose all at once like so
many Quail. The others followed singly in
quick succession. At 4 P.M. we started
7 or 8 in nearly the same place.
Except for these two walks we spent
most of day in house reading & talking.
No callers.

Concord (Farm)
Ther [Thermometer] Monday, Sept. 11, 1916 [September 11,1916] Wea [Weather] Superb.
Almost no migrants passing.
  Brilliantly clear with little or no wind 
save every now & then a light breeze from 
eastward. Very cool (almost frosty) over 
night & again this evening but agreeably 
warm - with Cicadas "frying" - through day. 
Many field crickets creaking by day & a few 
Tree Crickets at night. No autumnal calling 
of Hylas as yet. Glorious light from nearly 
full moon shining in cloudless sky last night 
& this. 
  Despite such perfect autumnal weather &
calm, cool moonlit nights especially favorable
in every respect for migration of small 
woodland birds I have failed to hear any of 
them passing overhead since the night of the 5th [September 5, 1916]
when very many were flighting southward about 
10 P.M. There were almost none to be found 
in our woods yesterday & no more to-day when
I noted only 2 Black-polls [Blackpoll Warbler] & nothing else likely 
to have come from the northward save a [female] Rose-
breasted Grosbeak.
  Henry [Henry Wetherbee Henshaw] motored to Wellesley in forenoon when Timmy
& I spent two hours in the woods without seeing 
anything of much interest. Henry & I were out with
him again in late P.M. when he treed a "Gray" in
wells by spring & I shot it. Found 2 poison
dogwood bushes near Pulpit Rock.