Wea.[Weather] Mon.[Monday] June 4, 1900 Ther.[Thermometer]
  Clear & cool with strong W. [west] wind.
  Spent day working in garden
setting out plants brought from Concord,
transplanting others etc. Heard a Black poll
singing. All the other imigrants [sic] [immigrants] gone.
The pair of Cat birds still present &
evidently breeding but no nest found yet.
2 [males] Robins singing almost unceasingly all
day. Also heard a Wood pewee, Red-eye,
Redstart, Yellow Warbler, Chippy & both
species of Cuckoo.
Wea.[Weather] Tuesday [June] 5, [1900] Ther.[Thermometer]
  Clear & calm. E; [east] wind in P.M. Warmer.
  Took several photographs in garden
two at E. [East] Watertown & two in
Belmont[.] C. [Caroline] driving me to the
last two locations about noon.
In P.M. drew off water from
pond & planted water lilies,
water chestnut, Pickerel weed
etc. brought from Concord.
Bronchial cough acute &
treatment to-day.
Wea.[Weather] Wed. [Wednesday] June 6, 1900 Ther.[Thermometer]
[No entry]
Wea.[Weather] Thursday [June] 7, [1900] Ther.[Thermometer]
  Clear & warm with S.W. wind.
  Off photographing most of the
forenoon using the 6½ x 8½ camera.
C. [Caroline] drove me first to Arsenal Ridge,
E. [East] Watertown where I exposed three plates &
found a number of common birds singing.
We next went to Payson Park stopping
by the way to photograph the big willow
on the Adams place. Finally we drove
to the Waverley Reservation where we tied
the horse & visited the waterfall & 
lower mill ponds. Owen [?] found a Bittern's
nest with 6 - & a Least Bittern's with 5 eggs in
Fresh Pond Swamp.