1899
September
The drought which prevailed during the spring, summer
and autumn of the present year was broken in September only
by light rain on the 2nd, 11th, 24th and 25th, by continuous
and rather heavy rain on the 20th & 25th, & by two or three
thunder showers on other dates. There were twenty wholly
clear days and four when the sun shone nearly or quite
half the time. Killing frosts occurred on the mornings of the
14th & 30th. Most of days were warm & several of them
uncomfortably so. There was but little windy weather.
[margin]Weather[/margin]
  I visited the Frenches at Glendale from the 1st to the 14th,
the Chadbournes at North Glendale from the 15th to the 19th,
the Gehrings at Bethel (Maine) from the 22nd to October 4th.
I was at Cambridge during a portion of the 1st & 15th & the
whole of the 20th & 21st. My only trip to Concord was on the
21st.
[margin]Record of my
personal
movements.[/margin]
  At Cambridge I noted in our garden a Brown Thrasher and
a flock of 12 Cedar Birds on the 15th and a Swainson's Thrush
on the 21st. The Cedar Birds were feasting on some cherries.
The Thrush sang almost continuously & in nearly full tones
for fifteen minutes or more during a light shower just before
sunset.
[margin]Birds in 
our garden[/margin]
[margin]Swainson's
Thrush[/margin]
  At Concord I heard a Partridge drumming near Pulpit Rock
and found the woods everywhere alive with Red-bellied
Nuthatches.
[margin]Birds at
Concord [/margin]
  At North Scituate I heard the challenging call of a Wood Thrush
on the evening of the 15th & the screech of a Brown Creeper on the 18th.
Canada Nuthatches, Crows, Jays, Robins & Flickers were numerous. A
Phoebe was singing fully on the 16th & flocks of Cedar Birds were seen on the 17.
[margin]Birds at
No. Scituate[/margin]
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