Concord
Ther [Thermometer] Monday, Sept. 3, 1917 [September 3, 1917] Wea [Weather]
Fine
Clear, warm, almost windless, throughout
& wholly so at times.
  Farm birds 30 + Robins alighting but for a
moment in dooryard elm & thence dashing
off all together north westward; 50+ Starlings
flying N.E. over orchard; 4 Swifts mig. [migrating, S. [south]
at 7 A.M. & 8+, with 2 Barn Swallows, in
feeding flight over flower garden at 5 P.M.;
a Cat-bird a Song Sparrow & a Towhee,
near head of lane; 2 young Orioles, [male] & [female],
in bird bath together at noon; a Chestnut
side Warbler [Chestnut-sided Warbler] & Redstart, both juv. [juvenile], in
Berry Pasture; [male] Cooper's Hawk skimming
swift & low over field front of house at
5 P.M.: noisy Crows in run & corn;
King bird heard near house.
  Swarms of Butterflies (mostly argynnis)
about Zinnias. Tree Crickets plenty in
Berry Pasture but none near house.
Spent most of day in doors with
Locke, Whitcomb's mason, who came up
to renovate our fire-worn fireplaces.
Timmy & I went to Ritchie place on a
fruitless crow hunt at 8 A.M. & through 
Berry Pasture shortly before sunset.

Concord. Scarcity of small birds.
Coon tracks Fine
Clear & cool with light northerly wind.
Zinnias, Asters & Phlox about at best &
making gorgeous show of brilliant color.
Innumerable Butterflies of various kinds &
sizes attracted by these flowers are constantly
floating & hovering about them but there are
no Hummingbirds. Heard Autumnal calling
of Hyla once.
  Bird life of almost every kind scarce
or wanting. Pulpit Rock woods seemed
to harbor only Chickadee & a [male] Hairy W. [Hairy Woodpecker],
Birch Field nothing besides a Towhee &
one or two Jays. Near our Farm house
I saw one Robin & heard a Catbird
mewing in evening twilight. There were
also a few cawing Crows & screaming Jays
along the neighboring woodland outskirts.
  A Raccoon of the very largest size has left
clear, if somewhat old, footprints along margin
of shallow pool below orchard slope.
The first Crow I shot at Sunday morning was
found day dead to-day by George - about 200 yards
from when I lost sight of him.
Monson & his son began work this morn
on a causeway entering Pulpit Rock woods from
Rhodora Meadow. I spent most of day there
with George & John, who mowed brush.