Concord
Ther [Thermometer] Thursday, Sept. 13, 1917 [September 13, 1917] Wea [Weather]
5 Deer in Lawrence's field. Perfect.
Cloudless, quite windless, very warm
- altogether a simply perfect early
autumn day but of the weather-
breeding type. Cicadas shrilling.
Tiny mosquitos somewhat troublesome.
Butterflies of several kinds swarming
about such of our zinnias & asters
as have escaped the frost.
  5 Deer seen together by Monson & his
son at 6.45 A.M. - in Lawrence's
peach orchard, nibbling at peaches in
trees.
  8 Robins on lawn; 6 Cat birds, with
some of the robins, eating elder berries;
Swift seen circling hight [high]; Bobolink &
Barn Swallow heard; several loud
screaming Jays; 2 Tanagers (one ad [adult male] in
winter pl [plumage]) together in oak foot of lane.
Almost no Warblers - all I could find were a Black poll [Blackpoll Warbler], a D. virens [Dendroica virens]
& a Mniotilta (singing feebly at noon).
  Spent entire day in Pulpit rock
woods where my four men were
engaged in same work as yesterday.

Concord
Ther [Thermometer] Friday, Sept. 14, 1917 [September 14, 1917] Wea [Weather]
Perfect
In every respect as regards weather
conditions to-day was a duplicate of
yesterday & no less delightful.
  Our dooryard literally swarming with
birds at breakfast time & more or less all
day. 4 or 5 Robins, 3 Cat birds, 2
Tanagers & a Brown Thrasher were all
eating elder berries together at 8 A.M.
when a Hummer [Hummingbird] was hovering among
the flowers & a very yellow young
Tennessee Warbler flitting about in
locust foliage within a yard of our
plate glass window. A patch of yellow
feathers adhering to glass showed where
some bird had flown against it. Gilbert [Robert A. Gilbert]
found the victim just beneath, a young [female]
Tanager evidently 48 or more hours dead.
  The woods harbored little bird 
life. Near Pulpit Rock I saw 5
Chickadees and a [female] Redstart & heard a
D. virens [Dendroica virens] singing faintly. A Purple Finch
also sang a little in Cedar Park.
  Spent most of day with men
working near Pulpit Rock. Timmy 
with me all P.M.