Wea. [Weather] WED. [Wednesday] April 29, 1903 Ther. [Thermometer]
51 [degrees]
82 [degrees]
Clear & hot with strong S.W. [southwest] wind.
  Spent A.M. in museum writing
letters etc. Gilbert went to Bedford
to superintend the digging of a lot
of Rhodora near the R.R. station.
Hansen & Pat carted in to the farm.
I went to Dedham in P.M. with C. [Caroline] &
Mrs. Sawyer to call on Miss Fanny Forbes.
She has a beautiful place in the woods.
Yew abundant there near Purgatory Swamp.
Got back at 6.45.
Wea. [Weather] Thursday 30 [April 30, 1903] Ther. [Thermometer]
58 [degrees]
82 [degrees]
Clear & hot with light S. [south] wind.
  Spent day in Museum writing letters etc.
Took a walk in early morning
(6.30 - 8 A.M.) up Highland St.
to Fayerweather St. Chippies Common.
One Purple Finch [male in full song] Big colony Grackles
building nests in Smith's pines. Solitary Vireo
in our garden. Robins came in great
numbers at evening to roost in our lilacs.
There must have been 50 of them.
The noise of their singing was deafening. 
vegetation advanced by leaps & bounds to-day.
Apple trees in bloom in Milton ([?] R. Hayward).
Wea. [Weather] FRI. [Friday] May 1, 1903 Ther. [Thermometer]
55 [degrees]
56 [degrees]
Clear & cool with strong N. [north] wind.
  Spent most of day in Museum
writing letters, clearing out my desk
etc. Walked to the Gage's with C. [Caroline]
after lunch leaving her there to attend
her Bee meeting.
  Found in the Garden early this morning
& all through the day these freshly arrived
migrants:- Dendroica aestiva [male in full song],
M. varia [Mniotilta varia] [male in full song] [female], Har. rufus [Harporhynchus rufus] 1, Pipilo
[male], also saw a [male] Goldfinch, a Chippy [in full song] 
& Robins.
Wea. [Weather] Saturday 2 [May 2, 1903] Ther. [Thermometer]
35 [degrees]
Clear & cold with light N. [north] wind.
  Spent day in museum writing letters
Also did a little gardening.
The Towhee & Yellow Warbler as well as
the Solitary Vireo spent another day
in the garden but the Brown Thrasher
& Black & White Creepers must have departed
on migration last night as nothing was
seen of them to-day. There was a
Chickadee at the little pond about noon.
I also heard a Blue Jay in early morning.
To Dramatic Club at 7.30 p.m. with
C. [Caroline], E.R.S. [Elizabeth R. Simmons] & Geo. V. Leverett. "Saffron Trunk" a good play.