Concord.
Ther [Thermometer] Saturday, Oct. 13, 1917 [October 13, 1917] Wea [Weather]
Perfect.
Brilliantly clear with fresh southerly
wind shifting to northerly at evening.
Midday hours warm with many
yellow Butterflies & a few Dragon Flies
on wing.
Renewed scarcity of birds. Many here
a few days ago have evidently gone while
there has been little or no increase from
further north. Only 3 or 4 White throats [White-throated Sparrow],
a Song Sparrow & a few Juncos appeared
in our dooryard. There were 7 or 8
Yellow-rumps [Yellow-rumped Warbler] & a Robin in Cedar Park &
half a dozen Jays in Ritchie cornfield.
Elsewhere I noted a few Chickadees, a
Creeper 2 Ruby-crowned Kinglets, one
Gold-crest [Golden-crested Wren].
  About 3 P.M. I heard a Woodpecker
tapping persistently in a dead oak trunk.
Presently it showed its head (a [female] i]) at
the entrance hole which was large & ragged
& evidently that of a winter sleeping place.
Flushed 3 Partridges & heard one drum.
  Spent most of day with Zeph cutting
out wood roads in Birch Field & east
of Green Field. Mr. & Mrs. Darling
called in late P.M.

Concord. Call on Charles M. Carter
Ther [Thermometer] Sunday, Oct. 14, 1917 [October 14, 1917] Wea [Weather]
Heavy flight of Yellow-rump Warblers [Yellow-rumped Warbler]. Perfect.
Indian summer day, cloudless and
rather warm, with light westerly breeze. Chilly
at morn & eve, however. Although the full
glory of the earlier autumnal coloring is past
much of it still lingers & some of the
red maples are still at their best.
  A heavy flight of Yellow rumps [Yellow-rumped Warblers] arrived
over night. They were to be seen scattered
everywhere about the farm & were still
more numerous in Cedar Park & the Run
where there must have been 30 or more.
With them there were a Ruby-crown Kinglet [Ruby-crowned Kinglet]
& a handsome [male] Black thr. Blue Warbler [Black-throated Blue Warbler].
Several of the Yellow rumps [Yellow-rumped Warbler], a [female] Tanager
& a young [male] Sapsucker appeared in a
locust tree within a few feet of my 
chamber window, as I was dressing this
morning. The dooryard was enlivened by
the presence of these Warblers together with
many White-thr. Sparrows [White-throated Sparrow] & several Robins.
At 10 A.M. I heard a Grouse drum
(for first time this autumn) on the old
wall at foot of Run.
Walked to Ritchie place, with Timmy, soon
after breakfast. Spent most of A.M. in
house writing cheques for bills.
  In P.M. called on the Carter-Whites &
spent upwards of an hour with my
old friend Charlie C. Mrs. C. there. Saw
Marjorie & her dear little daughter.