Concord
Ther [Thermometer] Monday, Sept. 23, 1918 [September 23, 1918] Wea [Weather]
Fine.
Early morn cloudy & cool. Remainder of
day sunny & warm with light southerly
breeze. 
  Not many birds. Tanager calling in
lane, Nuthatch in elm behind house,
Cat birds & Towhees in dooryard
shrubbery, two or three unseen &
unidentified migrant Warblers in
run. A few Crows & Jays. White thr.
Sparrows [White-throated Sparrow] - at least 2. Hummingbird 
at Salvias. [female] Sharp-shin Hawk [Sharp-shinned Hawk]
soaring & gliding westward, high
in air over orchard.
  Spent entire day out of doors
- most of it in run with Zeph 
cutting out a new wood road leading
to red pine grove. We burned our
brush in the old swamp cellar hole.
Two Spotted Tortoises came to
light therein & remained there, too,
as far away from the fire as they
could get. We removed one but he
soon crawled back.

Concord (Farm & Ball's Hill)
Great Blue Heron. Winter Yellow-leg.
Ther [Thermometer] Tuesday, Sept. 24, 1918 [September 24, 1918] Wea [Weather]
Cabins again broken into. Mixed
Migrant Warblers & Thrushes in some force
Light rain falling thro much of last
night & this forenoon. Afternoon
sunny & warm with light W. [west] wind.
  Migrant Warblers in small flocks
scattered in various places. Unfortunately
I did not have opportunity to identify
any of them positively. Most of them
seemed to be Black-polls, a few D. virens [Dendroica virens].
This I inferred from their chirping calls.
While at Ball's Hill I saw 3 Thrushes
feeding together on berries of bull briar. Two
of these birds were certainly Swainson's, the
third presumably the same. 
  A young Great Blue Heron flew close past
the cabin just as we reached it. Several
hours later we saw him alight in marsh
across river & rowed past him within 80 yds.
A Kingfisher perched over river by boat landing
a Greater Yellow legs heard, an adult [female] B. lineatus [Buteo lineatus]
To Ball's Hill for day at 9 A.M. taking
Burbank, Zeph, George & Gilbert [Robert A. Gilbert]. River thieves
have again broken into the cabins by
smashing the padlocks on the log cabin,
my sleeping room & the chestnut "cabin".
Only a few trifles missing for few were left
there. We crossed the river & found stone
boat houses intact. Walked home at 5 P.M.