Concord (Farm)
Ther [Thermometer] Monday, Sept. 18, 1916 [September 18, 1916] Wea [Weather] Fine
Flock of Carolina Doves
  Sunny & warm with light S.W. [southwest] breeze.
Clouds gathering at sunset & brisk
thunder shower at 8 P.M.
  Not many south-bound migrants. A 
small flock of them feeding in gray birches
at sunset, in Birch Field, included 5 or 6
Yellow-rumps [Yellow-rumped Warbler], 3 Black-polls [Blackpoll Warbler], 2 D. virens [Dendroica virens] &
a Redstart in [male] plumage.
  Flushed 10 Carolina Doves from a sandy
open knoll in Birch Field at 9 A.M.
Eight of them were together from a spot
only a few yards square, like so many Quail,
for which I mistook them at first as their
wings made a loud whirring sound but this
was quickly succeeded by their usual silvery
whistle. The other two birds rose apart from
the rest a second later. All went off
towards Green Field, two returning afterwards
  Out with Timmy [Brewster's dog] & the 20 g. gun at 8
A.M. & 4 P.M. On each occasion he treed
a Gray Squirrel and I shot it - to his
intense joy of course. "Grays" [Gray Squirrel] still seen
but raiding and reaping corn somewhat.
Much shooting on river meadows in early
morn [morning]. Season opened on Saturday for 
Ducks & Snipe. Spent most of day in house -
writing letters. Gilbert [Robert Alexander Gilbert] went to Camb. [Cambridge], Henry to Boston.

Concord (Farm)
Ther [Thermometer] Tuesday, Sept. 19, 1916 [September 19, 1916] Wea [Weather] Fine
  Cloudless with light N.W. [northwest] wind. Rather
warm through day; cool at evening.
  About farm house only a few birds - one
Cat bird [Catbird] (juv) [juvenile], three Flickers together in oak,
a W. bellied Nuthatch [White-breasted Nuthatch] & a Brown Creeper in
elms, a White-throat [White-throated Sparrow] calling in lane, seven
Crows on wing, a [male] Sharp-shin Hawk [Sharp-shinned Hawk]
flying high westward at noon, Jays
screaming far & near.
  Ranging about through Birch Field &
Pulpit Rock woods was a mixed flock
comprising about 30 birds & including,
besides Chickadees & a Canada Nuthatch,
8 or 10 Yellow-rumps [Yellow-rumped Warbler], 4 or 5 Black-polls [Blackpoll warbler],
what looked like a juv. [juvenile] [male] Bay-breast [Bay-breasted Warbler]
a Mniotilta [male] juv. [juvenile], a Redstart in [female]
plumage. Heard a Towhee there at
sunset.
  Gilbert [Robert Alexander Gilbert] returned from Cambridge
in forenoon. He motored Henry [Henry Wetherbee Henshaw] to 
Wellesley in afternoon. Timmy [Brewster's dog] & I 
visited Birch Field twice 9-10 A.M.,
4-5 P.M. Pat & Harris called in forenoon.