Cambridge - Concord.
Wea. [Weather] Fri. [Friday] April 5, 1901 Ther. [Thermometer]
42 [degrees] 8.00
  Cloudy with fine rain in P.M.
  Drove through Mt. Auburn with C. [Caroline]
just after breakfast. Saw there
4 Flickers, 8 Crows & a Redwing
(at Muskrat Pond, singing) Heard 
a Blue Jay in Catholic Cemetery.
Picked out birds to take to W. in A.M.
To Boston at 11 A.M. Went directly
to Estabrook & Co's & spent an hour there.
Took 1.47 P.M. train for Concord.
To farm at 4 P.M. Strolled around there
at sunset. Country alive with birds.
Saw flock of 70 wild Geese
Wea. [Weather] Saturday 6 [April 6, 1901] Ther. [Thermometer]
42 [degrees]
52 [degrees]
  Cloudy with light rain in P.M.
and a perfect deluge the following night.
  Returned to Cambridge by 8.13 A.M.
train. Heard 2 Fox Sparrows at sunrise
& saw a solitary Tree Swallow as we
were crossing the river.
  Found 2 Fox Sparrows in our garden
at Cambridge. One of them sang at 
intervals through the forenoon. Spent
most of day working on Camb. [Cambridge] List.
Will & Alice Stone dined & spent the
night. They sail for Rotterdam May 11.
Cambridge - Boston - Concord.
Wea. [Weather] Sun. [Sunday] April 7, 1901 Ther. [Thermometer]
52 [degrees] 8 A.M.
  Cloudy with fine rain in P.M.
  It poured in torrents all last night - the
heaviest rain I think for a year or more.
A Fox Sparrow sang divinely in the garden
all the forenoon. He had a rarely modulated
voice - rich, full, tender. A Song Sparrow
also singing there & a Flicker shouting.
To St. John's church with C. [Caroline] at 8.30 A.M.
Wrote letters all forenoon. To the Haywoods at
noon. C. [Caroline], Roland & Mr. Leverett at table. Aunt
Mary not well. Started for W. [West] Bedford at 3 P.M.
& reached the cabin at 6.30 by electric most of way.
River at flood - the water up to lowest step in
front of cabin. Grass very green in Concord to-day.
Wea. [Weather] Monday 8 [April 8, 1901] Ther. [Thermometer]
About 50 [degrees]
  Cloudy with light easterly 
winds & fine rain most of P.M.
  Spent most of the day at or near
Ball's Hill. Transplanted a number
of pines & a few mountain laurels
in A.M., some larches in P.M.
There is almost no frost in the ground.
Walked to Pine Park at evening.
A flock of about 80 Geese passed
over Ball's Hill at 4 P.M.
  The river is very high & the lower
step in front of the cabin was flooded tonight.