Concord (Farm)
Ther [Thermometer] Thursday, Sept. 14, 1916 [September 14, 1916] Wea [Weather]
Perfect.
Clear, calm, intensely warm but not 
over humid: altogether a rarely beautiful
day of mid-summer type, with Cicadas
emphasizing the fact by ceaseless shrilling.
Heard autumnal calling of Pickerings Hylas
for first time this year.
  Only a few migrants from further
north (I heard many passing over at 10
P.M. last night) and then scattered 
widely either singly or no more than 
half a dozen together. In Birch Field &
feeding in gray birches, doubtless on
Aphidae (not numerous this autumn)
were 3 young Usnea Warblers with 2 Yellow rumps [Yellow-rumped Warbler]
& several Chickadees; in Run near Pulpit R. [Pulpit Rock]
were 4 or 5 Black-polls [Blackpoll Warbler], a female Black-
throated Blue [Black-throated Blue Warbler] & 2 Olive-backs; in front of
house 4 Juncos, a Peabody bird, 2 Cat birds [Catbirds]
& a very young Hummer [Hummingbird] with feeble flight
who came to an aster blossom over which
George & I were bending low & poised there
for half a minute within 6 inches of George's
hand. A Marsh Hawk & a Sharp-shin [Sharp-shinned Hawk] [female]
& a Swift passed over open in front of house.
  Spent most of day in or near house.
Henry [Henry Wetherbee Henshaw] & I walked to Birch Field 8.30-9.30 A.M.
He went to Cd. [Concord] for golf in P.M.

Concord (Farm)
Ther [Thermometer] Friday, Sept. 15, 1916 [September 15, 1916]  Wea [Weather] Rainy
A Deer in front of Bungalow.
  Mostly dark cloudy with strong S.W. [southwest]
wind and exceedingly heavy showers
following one another in endless succession
at brief intervals. Few of them lasted more
than half an hour except towards sunset
when there was continuous downpour for
upwards of an hour. Altogether a rather
gloomy and also uncomfortable day for
the air was oppressively warm & humid.
  Very few birds within sight or hearing of our
house, in or near which I spent most of
day. One or two Catbirds mewing in the
Forsythia thicket, a Song Sparrow in the
bird bath, a Grosbeak clicking in early
morn [morning] & a dozen Crows flying westward
in straggling order at evening, as if towards
some roosting place. Timmy & I visited
Pine Park & the Run just after breakfast
without finding anything there, or along the Lane
save two or three White-throats [White-throated Sparrow] & an unseen
Warbler that chirped like a Black-poll [Blackpoll Warbler].
Henry [Henry Wetherbee Henshaw] & Gilbert [Robert Alexander Gilbert] gone all day motoring to Cambridge &
Wellesley. Mrs. Burbank saw a yearling buck
by the well [?] in front of Bungalow at 6 A.M.
It came walking through the pines along the path & then turned back. It looked
exhausted & had its tongue out. A dog was burying his [?] [?] at the time.