Concord ( Farm & Ball's Hill)
Ther [Thermometer] Tuesday, Sept. 12, 1916 [September 12, 1916]  Wea [Weather] Fine
Migrants from N. [north] scarcer than ever.
  Clear & warm with fresh southerly
breeze. Grass drenched with dew
overnight, lasting through day, also in
well shaded places.
  Almost no small birds & literally not
one obviously from further north, to be
found at our Farm or in its bordering
woodlands.  First Junco of this season
flushed from Bensen's asparagus bed.
8 or 10 Chickadees in birches oaks & pines
at rear of Ball's Hill were accompanied by
an Usnea Warbler [female] juv [juvenile], a young Black Poll [Blackpoll Warbler]
& 2 D. virens [Dendroica virens]. Two or three Warblers,
perhaps the same as those just mentioned,
heard chirping near cabins later in day.
At 9 A.M. a Great Blue Heron flew low over
Pine Park, from 11.30 to 12 there was one
perched in a dead oak across the river,
at 12.30 one flew up stream past cabin,
only a yard or two above the water. 
Kingfisher rattling near cabin & Red- Should'ed
Hawk [Red-shouldered Hawk] screaming across Great Meadow
  Spent most of day at Ball's Hill,
dining there. Burbank & George carted away
a lot of driftwood & other rubbish. Walked
down with Henry [Henry Wetherbee Henshaw] & rode back in wagon.

Concord (Farm)
Samuel Henshaw & Outram Bangs & the Deters [Dexters] call.
Ther [Thermometer] Wednesday, Sept. 13, 1916 [September 13, 1916] Wea [Weather] Perfect
Another flight of migrants from N. [north].
   Clear & warmer still. Light S.W. [southwest] wind.
   Warblers & other small birds coming from
regions further north appeared here rather
numerously to-day [today] not in large flocks but
scattered about in small ones or singly,
almost everywhere. A Wilson's Black-cap
[female] juv [juvenile] flitting about in Forsythia thicket in
front of house ( at 7 A.M.), a [female] Cape May [Cape May Warbler]
a Canadian Warbler & a [female] juv [juvenile] Usnea Warbler,
a young Myrtle Warbler in first plumage (dark
streaked so sharply & profusely that it 
looked very like a Pine Linnet) several
Black polls [Blackpoll Warbler] & D. virens [Dendroica virens], a Towhee, a 
Hermit Thrush & a Tanager, eight or more
Chickadees & a couple of Robins were all
seen in Birch Field where the Warblers
were feeding mostly in gray birches,
the Cape May [Cape May Warbler] however, keeping chiefly in
pitch pines. Great Blue Heron flying over
our apple orchard just above tree tops, 9 A.M.
  Henry [Henry Wetherbee Henshaw] went to Boston this morning.
Timmy [Brewster's dog] & I to Birch Field where I spent
an hour or more identifying Warblers.
The whole Dexter family came down at 2.30
P.M. We went to Birch Field. Sam Henshaw [Samuel Henshaw]
& Outram Bangs joined us there at 3.30,
Henry about 4. They stayed until 6.30