1906
Oct. 8
  Brilliantly clear with light N.W. wind changing to S.W.
in late P.M. Very cool last night but without frost. Ther.
34 degrees at the farm at daybreak this morning.
  The maple foliage in the swamps and along the
borders of the river meadows reached what I take to be
its maximum brilliance to-day. It has turned very suddenly
& also very late this year.
  The country was alive with birds this morning, a
heavy flight evidently having arrived during last night.
At 8 A.M. we had close about the cabin several chickadees,
3 or 4 Golden-crests, 2 Ruby-crowned Kinglets, 4 or 5 Black polls,
2 or 3 Yellow-rumps, a Red-eyed Vireo, 3 Hermit Thrushes, a
Swainson's Thrush, a Purple Finch, 3 Goldfinches, a Pine Warbler,
a solitary Vireo, 3 or 4 Blue Jays & several Crows. Bluebirds,
Titlarks & a Flicker were heard not far off. A Canada Nuthatch was noted late in the day.
 at the farm I saw most of these species & in addition
a Sapsucker, Peabody Birds, were numerous everywhere I went.
I saw at least a dozen Black-polls during the day.
As I was following the road that leads from Bensen's to the
school tower I started two Doves from the ground among
some bushes.
  As I was watching two Hermit Thrushes early this morning
one of them flew into the open door of our stone shed
(the "horse shed", so called). It remained inside this building
for fully a minute. Later in the day Mr. Forbush saw
a Hermit fly out of this building.
  One of the Ruby-crowns seen near the cabin this 
morning sang almost continuously for fifteen or twenty 
minutes & nearly if not quite as well as in spring. This
happened about 8 o'clock. At the same time a Solitary
Vireo & a Pine Warbler were singing near at hand but
in rather broken & listless tones.