Concord.
Ther [Thermometer] Tuesday, Sept. 3, 1918 [September 3, 1918] Wea [Weather]
Local birds scarce, almost no migrants. Fine
Clear & cool with light easterly 
wind. Clouds gathering towards sunset.
  Continued scarcity of birds, both
large & small. I see or hear no
Hawks, Pheasants or Partridges
and few if any Warblers seem to
be passing on migration. For the
nocturnal lisping calls of the last
named birds I have listened night
after night so nearly in vain that
only one such chirp has been heard
since I came here on August 23.
The few birds appearing daily close
about the house are all thus far of
summer resident kinds. In our
woodland there would seem to be
no birds save numerous Crows & a few Jays.
  In the woods with my gun soon
after breakfast: later with basket
& botany box picking wild grapes
& digging plants to set out around
bird bath. More grape picking in P.M.
Watering plants at eve. Burbank
picking apples. George ploughing.

Concord - Boston - Cambridge
Ther [Thermometer] Wednesday, Sept. 4, 1918 [September 4, 1918] Wea [Weather]
C. [Caroline Brewster] returns to Miss Mc.Dowell's Hospital. Fine
Clear & warmer with light southerly
wind. Early morning cool & foggy.
  Cambridge Garden birds. All I could see
or hear in late P.M. (4 - 6) were 2 ad. [adult males]
Goldfinches, in worn & faded nuptial
plumage, which alighted on a patch of
bare earth in vegetable garden & remained
there several minutes. Percy tells me
he has noticed only a very few birds
about the place of late.
  Left Concord by usual 8.05 train.
Sat with Edward Emerson until we
reached Lexington, after that with George
Keyes. Walked fr. [from] North Station thro
Union St. to Fottler-Fisk-Rawson's &
there ordered seed wheat & winter vetch
to plant at Farm. Spent most of day at
office where I saw Arthur & the rest.
Dictated several letters to "beneficiaries"
at Wolfeboro & elsewhere. Home by 4 P.M.
Lizzy there to receive me. C. had gone in
town by Ford car an hour earlier to Miss
McDowell's private hospital to prepare
for operation to -morrow. Dr. Gehring arrived at
to spend night at our house.