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Ther [Thermometer] Wednesday, Sept. 25, 1918 [September 25, 1918] Wea [Weather]
Heavy, yet not damaging, frost over night.
Delightfully sunny, serene & windless
forenoon with warm sunshine.
Clouds gathering & chill N.E. [northeast] wind rising
in afternoon. Butterflies & Dragonflies
out in force during midday hours.
  Towhees, Cat birds, Chippies [Chipping Sparrow], Goldfinches
2 White-throats [White-throated Sparrow], a Downy Woodpecker,
an Indigo bird & a Red bellied Nuthatch
spent most of day in or near our dooryard.
In neighboring woodlands I saw or heard
only a few Crows & Jays & a Brown
Creeper. Apparently there were no
migrant Warblers or Thrushes anywhere
about the place.
  George & I spent most of forenoon
setting out ferns & mountain laurel
brought from Ball's Hill yesterday.
In afternoon we moved a lot of
garden plants to new places.
Zeph burning brush & splitting wood 
of big lightning shattered oak near barn.
Burbank ploughing & harrowing.

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Ther [Thermometer] Thursday, Sept. 26, 1918 [September 26, 1918] Wea [Weather]
Stormy
North-east rain storm beginning before
daybreak, lasting through whole day,
accompanied by very heavy rainfall,
flooding low places everywhere.
  No south bound migrants noted
unless Jays may be so classed. They so
swarmed everywhere about the place
that I must have seen above 20 of them.
Our dooryard seemed alive with
birds darting hither & thither across
the lawn from our belt of shrubbery to
another & filling the air with their calls.
One could scarce look anywhere without
seeing one or none of them, on wing or perched.
Yet they probably were the self-same
birds here for the past month or so &
including 5 or 6 Cat-birds, about as
many Towhees, rather more Chippies [Chipping Sparrows], 
several Goldfinches, 3 or 4 Robins & at
least 1 Indigo bird.
  Spent forenoon in house, writing letters
& directing carpenter work of Burbank & Zeph.
With latter I went to Birch Field in late
P.M. to set fire to the big brush heap
there. It burned sulkily so we left it.