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Wea. [Weather] Tues. [Tuesday] April 17, 1906 Ther. [Thermometer]
34 [degrees] 
66 [degrees]
  Clear & warm with light, varying
winds, chiefly N & N.E. [north and northeast].
  Spent day out of doors but
near house, raking leaves, pruning
fruit trees, & superintending work
on pigeon house which nears the end.
There seemed to be only a few
birds about & no new ones were 
noted. Robins are strangely scarce.
Purdie went to Ball's Hill in
A.M. & to Boston for the night
in P.M. Crocuses, Squill, & hepaticas
in fullest bloom.

Wea. [Weather] Wednesday 18 [April 18, 1906] Ther. [Thermometer]
38 [degrees]
68 [degrees]
  Clear with light N.W. [northwest] to
N.E. [northeast] winds.
  First Yellow Palm Warbler noted by Gilbert.
  Spent most of day in an
arm chair in the sun in front of
the shed watching the carpenters 
working on the pigeon house which
was practically finished by night.
  I also took down notes on the
songs, calls etc of the birds that
came within my ken. My knee 
was so weak & painful that I
could walk but little. Purdie
returned from Boston at 5.30 P.M.
[margin]San Francisco, Cal. [San Francisco, California] devastated 
by terrible earthquake.[/margin]

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  Wea. [Weather] Thur. [Thursday] April 19, 1906 Ther. [Thermometer]
36 [degrees]
72 [degrees] 
  Clear. A.M. calm. P.M. with
chill E. [east] wind. Very warm at noon.
  Purdie [Henry A. Purdie] , Gilbert & I spent the day
at Ball's Hill dining at the cabin.
James drove me down & back. I
paddled Purdie [Henry A. Purdie] about over the flooded
meadows in the forenoon. After dinner
we all worked at the flower beds
clearing out dead leaves & mending the
fence. Hepaticas, Claytonia & blood root in
bloom. Many people on river. Very few
birds. A Ruby-crown [ruby crowned kinglet] singing at cabin.
[margin]First Toads trilling this evening.[/margin]

Wea. [Weather] Friday 20 [April 20, 1906] Ther. [Thermometer]
43 [degrees]
68 [degrees]
  A.M. cloudy: P.M. clear.
Wind S.W. [southwest].
  Myrtle Warbler (1 [male in full song]) & Solitary Vireo
(1 [male in full song]) noted for first time; both in 
oak grove near the barn.
  Spent most of the day in the rustic
summer house which I put up last
summer & which the carpenters are now
lining with bark etc. Saw a [male] Marsh 
Hawk crossing over field. Purdie went
to Boston in P.M. Gilbert tied Betty 
to the post by the wood shed on his
return & she at once started back &
broke her bridle.
[margin]A few Forsythia flowers open to-day[/margin]