Concord (Farm)
Heavy flight of Warblers.
Ther [Thermometer] Tuesday, Sept. 26, 1916 [September 26, 1916] Wea [Weather] Superb
42 [degrees] min. [minimum]
2 Cape Mays [Cape May Warbler], 1 West. Palm [Western Palm Warbler]
First Ruby-Crown & Pine Linnet.
Brilliantly clear & bracingly cool with
fresh north-west [northwest] wind.
  Birch Field teaming with migrant birds
just arrived from further north.   Distributed
everywhere throughout its gray birch & white
pine thickets there must have been upwards of
70 or 80 altogether.  About half that number
kept together in a loose flock drifting to & fro
through the easterly part of the "field" & feeding
mostly in birches. These I reviewed rather
carefully in forenoon & again in late P.M.
when Henry [Henry Wetherbee Henshaw] & Dexter were with me. It was
an interesting & varied assemblage comprising
2 Cape May Warblers, [male] and [female] juv. [juvenile], 3 Usnea Warblers juv [juvenile]
(one without any yellow beneath), a Magnolia [Magnolia Warbler],
2 Mniotiltas, several D. virens [Dendroica virens] (one [male] ad [adult]),
4 Black Polls [Blackpoll Warbler], 12 + Yellow-rumps [Yellow-rumped Warbler], a Palm
Warbler (western form, without yellow on throat
only faintly yellowish elsewhere beneath), a Ruby
Crown Kinglet [Ruby-crowned Kinglet] (singing sotto voce, 9 A.M.), a
Canada Nuthatch, a Pine Linnet (flight call hd. [heard]),
a Swainson's Thrush, 6 Juncos, 3 White throats [White-throated Sparrow],
2 Red-shouldered Hawks screaming (one high
in air overhead), Kingfisher flying low
near house, a Cat bird [Catbird], several White throats [White-throated Sparrow],
about 10 Chippies [Chipping Sparrow].
  Spent most of day with the birds in 
Birch Field. Mrs. Melvin, Mrs. & Miss Robbins
called at 3 P.M.
  Had a nasty fall from doorstep at 5 P.M.
Sprained finger of left hand. Dr. Wentworth
sent for. He partly replaced torn ligament.

Concord (Farm) R. H. Dana [Richard Henry Dana] arrives
Nocturnal flight of Warblers.
Ther [Thermometer] Wednesday, Sept. 27, 1916 [September 27, 1916] Wea [Weather] Fair
Skunk distroys Hornet's paper nest.
Partly cloudy, mostly sunny; oppressively
warm & humid. Altogether a summer-like
day. Many Dragon-Flies [Dragonflies] & hosts of Yellow
Butterflies on wing over grass fields & garden.
  Warblers migrating at 10 P.M. in rather
large numbers, to judge by their lisping calls.
Not very many came under my notice by day &
these were mostly Yellow-rumps [Yellow-rumped Warbler] of which I
found a small flock in Cedar Park & another in
Birch Field. Henry met with a rather large
flock near Bensen's. It included a Tanager & a
Sapsucker [female] juv. [juvenile]. Another Sapsucker, also [female] juv. [juvenile],
very pale with no red showing on head, spent
day in our dooryard elms & then along lane.
While at our noon meal we saw a typical, large
Alice's Thrush emerge from the Forsythia thicket
& hop about over the bordering lawn in full sunlight.
A paper Hornets' nest as big as a peck basket,
in a currant bush, close to ground, in our
garden was intact at sunset last eve.[evening] but 
this morning almost completely demolished with
peices [pieces] of comb strewn about over ground padded
with tracks of a Skunk who had also left several
little heaps of fresh excrement there.
 To Birch Field at 9 A.M. with Henry & again
alone at 3 P.M. Dick Dana & his niece
Rosamund Welch arrived at 4 P.M. He spent
night with us, she went to the Colonial.
  We sat up late talking of many things.