Concord
Ther [Thermometer] Sunday, Sept. 1, 1918 [September 1, 1918] Wea [Weather]
70 [degrees] max. Superb.
Brilliantly clear & refreshingly cool
with light northerly wind.
  Bird life about the Farm at
low ebb. Solitary Vireo singing
a little in run. 2 Robins near
hen yard. In or near Forsythia
thicket front of house 2 Catbirds
& 2 Towhees; also an unseen White
Throated Sparrow chirping. I heard
him there on August 24 & 28.
No doubt he is the self-same bird
that summered near our corn pasture.
Crows cawing incessantly & a Jay
screaming fitfully. A Swallow too far
away to be identified passing south
high in air.
Spent most of day in house
writing letters. Also cut grass of
dooryard with lawn mower. In 
late P.M. paid George a visit. Found
him working among his incomparable
flowers which surpass in beauty &
luxuriance all I have seen elsewhere.
His young Crow thriving - an amusing bird.

Concord
Ther [Thermometer] Monday, Sept. 2, 1918 [September 2, 1918] Wea [Weather]
Perfect.
A duplicate of yesterday with
almost precisely similar conditions
of wind & weather.
  Still fewer birds. They included only 
a Robin, a Maryland Yellow throat,
and an Indigo bird, in our dooryard;
two or three unidentified Warblers in
top of big elm; Crows cawing;
Bobolink heard calling afar off.
During a walk thro Berry Pasture
just before sunset I failed to
see or hear a bird of any kind.
Wild grapes in fair abundance
are ripe or ripening there now.
Our dooryard flowers are at
their very best or nearly so.
The zinnias in the circular bed 
have never made a braver show.
  Spent forenoon mowing lawn,
sorting apples & picking strawberries
& raspberries which Gilbert [Robert A. Gilbert] took to
Cambridge after dinner. Called on
the Howes in late P.M. seeing
Mr. H. & his daughter.