Concord
Connecticut Warbler
Ther [Thermometer] Monday, Sept. 17, 1917 [September 17, 1917] Wea [Weather]
Rose-br. Grosbeak [Rose-breasted Grosbeak] Fair
  Early morn [morning] sunny, afternoon cloudy.
Cool with light easterly wind. White frost
last night.
  Returning from Pulpit Rock at noon
I had just left the woods & entered the
opening at the foot of the orchard slope when
a movement among tall golden rod clustering
about a black spruce on right of path
attracted my notice The next instant its author,
a Conn. Warbler [Connecticut Warbler], showed himself among the
foliage of a maple sapling within two yards
of me where I had a clear view of him in
good light - a young bird in full, clean pl. [plumage]
Presently he descended to ground & walked over
it quietly much like an Oven bird. [There?]
was a Maryland Yl-throat [Maryland Yellow-throat] there also.
  In late P.M. we saw a pair of Rose br.
Grosbeaks [Rose-breasted Grosbeak] in Forsythia thicket fr. [front] of house.
The [male] apparently adult was in pl. [plumage] unlike
any bird of that kind Henry [Henry W. Henshaw] or I have ever
seen before. His head & neck were brown, his wings & tail black, his rump pure white
his body plumage conspicuously mottled almost
everywhere with white (especially on the back),
the rose on breast confined to a narrow
elongated space. He uttered incessantly for
many minutes a peculiar, subdued, nasal
whining call mammal-like & new to us.
  Spent forenoon in Pulpit Rock woods.
Henry went to Boston [?] 3 P.M..
  Dexter [Smith Owen Dexter] came at 4 & we had a short walk.

Two or three unidentified Warblers that chirped like Tennessees [Tennessee Warbler] & single Blackpoll [Blackpoll Warbler]
in Birch Field. 5 Cat birds in dooryard.

Concord
Ther [Thermometer] Tuesday, Sept. 18, 1917 [September 18, 1917] Wea [Weather]
1/2 stormy
1/2 fine
  Heavy N.E. [northeast] rain storm beginning at 10 P.M.
last night lasted through forenoon to-day
but this afternoon was cloudless, calm
& of summerlike warmth & serenity.
  Our dooryard thronged with birds through
most of day. There were 4 Robins, 6 Cat
birds, a Thrasher, a Towhee & a Rose br.
Grosbeak [Rose-breasted Grosbeak] eating elder berries, a Flicker
eating barberries, a Black-poll [Blackpoll Warbler], 4
Chippies [Chipping Sparrow], a Song Sparrow & a handsome
ad. [adult male] Goldfinch in unchanged nuptial
pl. [plumage], bathing in the bird bath.
The Grosbeak kept up his low whining
utterance ceaselessly. It seemed to us
most like that of a hungry puppy.
  A small mixed flock in Cedar Park
included a ad [adult male] Cape May Warbler & at
least 3 Red starts (one adult [male]).
Swainson's Thrush in Birch Field.
  Spent forenoon indoors. Walked
through Birch Field & Prescott pines
with Henry & Timmy in late P.M.
Starting no less than 8 Partridges. 