Concord.
Ther. [Thermometer] SUN. MAY 2, 1909 [Sunday, May 2, 1909] Wea. [Weather]
34º - 57º [34 degrees-57 degrees]   Partly cloudy.
Sunny with cloud masses driving
before violent & cold N.W. [northwest] wind.
  Spent forenoon in house writing
letters. Edward & Annie Emerson
dined with us at 1 P.M. We sat
in parlor for an hour after dinner.
  Purdie & the Stones went to Ball's
Hill just after breakfast seeing in 
the brush along river banks great
flocks of Yellow Palm & Myrtle Warblers.
After the Emersons left about 4 P.M.
the Stones, Purdie & I walked to
Green Hill. It was windy & cold
but a beautiful afternoon. Saw a 
pair of Cooper's Hawks (the [female] had a [?]) 
soaring together & found a Red-shouldered
Hawks' nest (Lawrence's chestnut woods)
only 25 ft. [25 feet] up in chestnut. The [male] flew off.
Deer tracks of various sizes in many places.
Spent evening in parlor talking.
Concord.
Ther. [Thermometer] MON. MAY 3, 1909 [Monday, May 3, 1909] Wea. [Weather]
32º [32 degrees]
Brilliantly clear with raging N.W. [northwest]
wind, a typical March day.
  Robins singing in full chorus at
daybreak. Purple Finches, Chippies [Chipping Sparrows] &
Song Sparrows singing through forenoon.
  Mr. & Mrs. Stone left by 8.06 A.M. train.
I spent forenoon in and about the
house & barn during doing various odd things.
Purdie & I walked to Ball's Hill
after dinner going & returning via
Bensen's for all the other ways are
impassable because of the high water.
All the river meadows & swamps are
near submerged. We saw only a few
birds at Ball's Hill. In Bensen's field
started a flock of about 25 Titlarks &
one of 40 or more Redwings [Red-winged Blackbirds], 8 of them [females].
  Gilbert [Robert Alexander Gilbert] called home by 5.15 train by news 
of his wife's illness sent him by telephone.
Mrs. James & [Matilda?] Bensen got our supper.
