Concord (Farm)
Ther [Thermometer] Wednesday, Sept. 20, 1916 [September 20, 1916] Wea [Weather
Fine
Clear & warm with high westerly
wind. Almost frostily cool last night.
  Marked scarcity of passing migrants.
Those met with scattered widely. They
included several Yellow rumps [Yellow-rumped Warbler], 2 or 3
Black-polls [Blackpoll Warbler], a Mniotilta (on elm trunk
in dooryard), 4 Juncos, 7 White-throats [White-throated Sparrow]
About 8 A.M. a male Sharp-shinned Hawk
skimmed low past me in Birch Field.
Shortly afterwards I was standing motionless
in a little opening when a young bird of same
sex, presumably self-same individual,
alighted in a birch about on a level with my
face & within 8 ft. of it. I shot but missed
him when, a moment later, he dashed off
through the trees. Saw a [female] Sharp-Shin [Sharp-shinned Hawk] circling
over run & shot a Gray Squirrel in tall oak,
on way back to farm house. Flushed an old
Cock Partridge in Birch Field & a brood of
8 or 10 well-grown young in Berry Pasture.
Two Towhees near Birch shed. Two Cat birds [Catbird] (juv [juvenile])
at house, one of them self-imprisoned in 
room where Bats abide in shed loft. He must
have entered it by a narrow opening over door,
as the Bats do.
  To Birch Field again, with Henry, at 4 P.M.
Almost no birds stirring. Country flooded with
Jays [Blue Jay] in forenoon. Mrs. Melvin called at 3 P.M.

Concord (Farm)
Ther [Thermometer] Thursday, Sept. 21, 1916 [September 21, 1916] Wea [Weather] Perfect.
Only one Bat left in shed loft
Cloudless, warm, light S.W. [southwest] wind.
  Yellow Butterflies (Clouded Sulphurs) by scores
in every grass field spangled with hawkwood
blossoms. Tree Crickets chirping all day long
in densely shaded places & everywhere at 
nightfall.
  Heavy firing on river meadows distantly heard
at Farm & lasting from sunrise to 9 A.M.
Many double reposts. This strong presumptive
evidence that snipe were there in considerable
numbers.
  A good sized flock of small birds in
Forsythia thicket at 7 A.M. Henry identified
an Oven bird [Ovenbird], a Cat bird [Catbird] & 5 White-throats [White-throated Sparrow].
I saw a Phoebe, a Creeper (Certhia) & 4 Goldfinches,
a little later.
  Visiting Birch Field at 8.30 A.M. I found it 
almost devoid of bird life but when Henry [Henry Wetherbee Henshaw] &  
I went there at 4 P.M we encountered a 
mixed flock of about 20 birds including 4 or 5
Yellow-rumps [Yellow-rumped Warbler], 3 or 4 Black-polls [Blackpoll Warbler], an Usnea
Warbler, Chickadees, Canada Nuthatch etc.
  Spent most of day in front of house where
Harris his helper & George dug a trench around
pond. It developed 4 leaks.
Henry went to Camb. [Cambridge] & Boston returning 4 P.M.