Cambridge - Concord
Ther [Thermometer] Saturday, Sept. 1, 1917 [September 1, 1917] Wea [Weather]
60 [degrees] - 65 [degrees] Rainy
Sunny in very early morn, cloudy
after 8 A.M., raining 11 A.M.-5 P.M.
for the most part steadily but not
heavily. Cool with light easterly wind
  Cambridge Garden Birds. A robin & a
pair of adult Goldfinches, the latter
eating sunflower seeds.
  Concord Farm Birds. A Maryland Yellow-
throat, a Catbird, a Flicker, a Bluebird,
a Barn Swallow & a Swift seen near
house, Crows cawing further off.
The Swallow & Swift flying low
southward, apparently on migration, 4 P.M.
  Leaving home at 11 A.M. Gilbert [Robert A. Gilbert] & I,
with Irish terrier "Timmy", motored to
Concord to spend next two months at
the Farm. E.R.S. [Elizabeth R. Simmons] also departed, by
noon train for Lancaster, leaving C. [Caroline Brewster] to
spend next week alone with Charlotte
in Cambridge. The rain kept me in doors
at Farm most of P.M. but I strolled about
near house & also went to Ritchie place
for baking apples. Great show of Zinnias & phlox now.

Concord
Ther [Thermometer] Sunday, Sept. 2, 1917 [September 2, 1917] Wea [Weather] Fair
Early morn cloudy. Rest of day sunny
warm & humid with light southerly
wind.
  Obvious dearth of small birds and
seeming total absence of all the more 
northern-breeding ones usually passing
southward on & before this date. I
saw or heard to-day half a dozen
Robins, a Catbird, a Towhee, a
dozen Chippies [Chipping Sparrow], a Tanager, several
Jays, many Crows, a Flicker, a
Hairy Woodpecker, a Barn Swallow,
an Oven bird (its flight song heard at
eve) and upwards of a dozen
Black-thr. Green Warblers [Black-throated Green Warbler] (ad.& juv. [adults and juveniles],
scattered in white pine & cedar woods).
  The incessant clamor of Crows assembled
to devour our corn overcame my reluctance
to use a gun on Sunday so I started in
pursuit of them at 9 A.M. Shot at 3
in run, killing one, wounding another,
missing a third. Also killed a Gray Squirrel.
Cooked & ate my dinner alone Gilbert
having taken Ford car to Concord for
repairs. Spent whole afternoon in woods,
with Timmy. (Birch Fd [Birch Field] & Prescott's pines)