Concord  May 20, 1904
  Forenoon sunny & oppressively warm. Thunder
shower about noon & another at 3 P.M.
Evening cloudy & calm.
  Spent day at W. [west] end of Birch Field working
with Hansen & Pat planting a large number of
hemlocks and small mountain laurels arrived
from Barnes of Mason, N.H. [New Hampshire] Put all but one
or two of each in a nursery bed.
  Walked to Ritchie place at evening. Birds singing
freely. To my surprise a Woodcock was pumping & singing
in the Berry Pasture when I returned.
Arrival Night Hawk 2 [in a flock] flying N. [north] at evening over Ritchie place.