Concord
Ther [Thermometer] Saturday, Sept. 29, 1917 [September 29, 1917] Wea [Weather]
Slight increase of small birds. Perfect.
Cloudless, almost windless, comfortably
warm with dry, bracing air.
  Autumn foliage brilliant in places.
Several red maples & many high
blueberry bushes ablaze in Berry Pasture.
Ivy & woodbine foliage at very best.
More birds today & even a few
Warblers. Black-throated Green [male] ad [adult] &
Blackburnian [Blackburnian Warbler] [female] juv. [juvenile] in big white pines
near Pulpit Rock; Black-poll [Blackpoll Warbler] juv [juvenile] in
Cedar Park, In our dooryard 10+ Chippies [Chipping Sparrow],
a Song Sparrow, 2 Peabody birds, 2
Goldfinches & an ad [adult] [male] Tanager (in winter pl. [plumage])
were bathing at intervals thro day. There 
were also 2 Cat-birds there & a Towhee
heard calling in Birch Field. Henry saw
a Phoebe in Bensen's elms.
A Red-shouldered Hawk screaming, a
Downy [Downy Woodpecker] calling. 5+ Jays & a cock
Pheasant in Ritchie's cornfield.
  Spent forenoon near spring where Zeph
cut out a lot of superfluous trees. Came
back with a blinding headache. It has troubled
me much of late. Dr. Wentworth came down
to see about it this evening but he finds
nothing to account for it.
Mr Garfield called at 2 P.M. to go over
Ritchie Place. The house pleased him much.

Concord. More small birds.
Ther [Thermometer] Sunday, Sept. 30, 1917 [September 30, 1917] Wea [Weather]
Light Warbler flight. Fair
Mostly cloudy with a few light showers
but also with some bright sunshine.
  8 or 10 White-throat Sparrows [White-throated Sparrow], several
Chippies [Chipping Sparrow] & 2 Cat-birds in our dooryard
at breakfast time. An hour later
I started 4 Pheasants (an old cock &
3 hens) in the Ritchie cornfield &
also found in or near it 5 Jays,
4 Towhees & several White-thr. Sparrows [White-throated Sparrow].
Still later Henry & I came upon 
a small flock of Warblers feeding on
gray birches in Cedar Park. It 
included 3 Cape Mays [Cape May Warbler] & 2 Magnolia
Warblers, all young birds. One of
the Cape Mays was a juv [juvenile male] very
yellow beneath; the other two 
showed no yellow whatever but 
differed in marking of under parts,
which in one was very pronounced, in 
the other scarce noticeable.
  Spent rest of day in house
writing letters. Took a short walk
with Henry [Henry W. Henshaw] after breakfast. Telephone
talk at eve with C. [Caroline Brewster] who seemed
depressed.

Heard a Night Heron call once at 10 P.M.