Concord.
Ther. [Thermometer] TUES. MAY 4, 1909 [Tuesday, May 4, 1909] Wea. [Weather.]
Clear.
The first really spring-like day
for some time, brilliantly clear,
comfortably warm, 
with gentle S.W. [southwest] wind.
Black-throated Green Warblers arrive.
  Spent most of day in the
flower garden where I had three
men at work, spading, weeding, etc.
A Broad-wing Hawk soared overhead,
a Sharp-shin Hawk chased a
Chippy [Chipping Sparrow] into the apple trees striking
at him thrice & passing within 20 ft. [20 feet]
of me. Purple Finches singing all day.
White-bellied Swallows about all my 
boxes through forenoon. Walked to
Ritchie place after breakfast, to
Birch Field & Bensen's with Purdie
& Stone at 6 P.M. (Will S. [Will Stone] returned this
afternoon.) A huge buck invaded our
flower garden last night - leaving his
tracks everywhere & eating many plants.
Concord.
Ther. [Thermometer] WED. MAY 5, 1909 [Wednesday, May 5, 1909] Wea. [Weather.]
Cloudy & clear.
Forenoon cloudy; afternoon clear.
Warm with soft southerly winds.
 Oven bird 1 [in full song] heard once 8 A.M.
Cat-bird [Catbird] 1 seen by Gilbert [Robert Alexander Gilbert].
2 Bats [in a flock] (the first) in wood shed this
morning. Found a brown one of a
different species in barn cellar yesterday.
  Gilbert, coming up from Cambridge
last night by way of W. Bedford [West Bedford]
found my boat house open
its padlock broken. Will Stone, Purdie
& & went there this morning & put
on a new padlock. The old one had
been forced by an iron bar or "jimmy".
Tracks of a man & woman about house.
Nothing inside it had been disturbed.
Saw 2 Great Blue Herons [in a flock] flying.
Spent P.M. in house writing letters.
Gypsy moth eggs not hatched yet.