Concord (Farm)
Ther [Thermometer] Thursday, Sept. 28, 1916 [September 28, 1916] Wea [Weather]
Perfect.
  Billiantly [Brilliantly] clear with strong S.W [southwest] wind.
Almost as summerish as yesterday
but less warm & much less humid.
  Two mixed flocks in Birch Field, both
mostly made up of Yellow-rumps [Yellow-rumped Warbler]. One
included, also, 2 Usnea Warblers, 5 or 6
D. virens [Dendroica virens], several Black-polls [Blackpoll Warbler] & Chickadees,
a Ruby-Crown Kinglet [Ruby-crowned Kinglet] & one or two
Juncos.  As Henry [Henry Wetherbee Henshaw] & I were watching these
birds (at 9.30 A.M.) three Red-shouldered
Hawks (one ad [adult] 2 juv [juvenile] that had been
screaming long & loud in oaks near the
spring, came soaring over us in company,
describing all manner of graceful curves & 
other [?]. One passed low enough to have
been brought down with a charge of [?] shot.
2 Cat-birds [Catbird] & a countless mob of Peabody
birds frequent our dooryard shrubbery all day.
A night Hawk passed high overhead at
sunset meandering towards south west [southwest].
  Dick Dana [Richard Henry Dana] left us at 9 A.M. Henry 
went to Bensen's pasture a little later. I
accompanied  him as far as Birch Field.
  We visited it again in late P.M.
  I spent most of day with men at work on
[?] flower beds in front of house.

  One juv. [juvenile] [Red-shouldered Hawk] looked almost as big as a Red-Tail [Red-tailed Hawk] & flew with a Gos-hawk [Goshawk]. Dexter & I saw
a similiar looking bird in same place on Oct 3 [October 3, 1916]. I now feel almost sure that both birds were Goshawks,
probably one & the same individual bird.

Concord - Boston
Ther [Thermometer] 79 [degrees] Friday, Sept. 29, 1916 [September 29, 1916] Wea [Weather]
Clear & very warm with fresh
south-west wind.
  Henry & I went to Boston by 8.07 
A.M. train returning by 2.40 P.M.
train.  The woodland along our
routes was blazing with vivid autumnal
coloring in many places especially
where maple swamps stretched far 
& wide. I spent most of forenoon
in our office, signing a lot of
quarterly batch cheques, writing a 
few letters etc. I also visited
Fottler, Fiske & Rawson's to order
bulbs for winter forcing of which
some $45 worth were selected.
Also had my hair cut. Henry &
I dined at Marston's. Saw Arthur
at office. He starts for Maine woods
soon. Gilbert [Robert Alexander Gilbert] met Henry & me at
Concord, Timmy [Brewster's dog] with him on front
seat of car as usual. Harris, his
helper & Zeph [Zephaniah Prosser] cementing under [?] of house.