Concord.
Ther. [Thermometer] ThURS. MAY 6, 1909 [Thursday, May 6, 1909] Wea. [Weather]
84º max. [84 degrees maximum]   Clear  S.W. [southwest] wind.
Great bird day with following arrivals
Oriole: 1 [in full song] near house early morning.
Least Flycatcher: 1 [in full song], Redstart,1 [in full song], Prairie Warb [Prairie Warbler] 1 [in full song]
1 each near house 8-9 A.M.
Chestnut-side W [Chestnut-sided Warbler] 1 [in full song]; Nashville W. [Nashville Warbler] 1 [in full song]; [Parula
Warbler], the Run 9-12 [[A.M.?], Chimney Swift
1 at 11.30 & through afternoon.
Maryland Yellow-Throat berry pastures at eve.[evening]
Birds singing joyously all day.
4 Bats in shed this morning.
  Spent day on farm &
Ritchie place. Walked to Birch
Field with Purdie & Will Stone
at 5 P.M. & to the Berry Pasture at
6.30. First shad bush [shadbush] blossoms
opened here to-day.
  On May 1 found a dead Box
Tortoise in Barrett Run within 70 yds. [70 yards]
of where I liberated a living pair
several years ago. Not seen since.
Concord.
Ther. [Thermometer] FRI. MAY 7, 1909 [Friday, May 7, 1909] Wea. [Weather]
  Clear & cool.
  Cloudless with chill east wind.
Thunder shower in middle of last night.
Arrivals: Veery, 3; Yellow Warbler, 1 [in full song];
Rose- breasted Grosbeak, [male] (silent); Kingbird 1.
10 Bats in wood shed.
  Purdie & Will Stone departed by
8.45 A.M. train. While driving back
James saw 2 Deer one in road about 
40 yds. [yards] south of our big elm, the other
just over wall in our field. They stayed
there 15 minutes. Gilbert saw them 
1t 10.45 & saw the mail wagon drive
past them. He says one was very large.
I walked to Ball's Hill & back via
Bensens 9.30 - 11 A.M., to Berry Pasture
& Birch Field 6.30.- 7 P.M. Very few 
birds at Ball's Hill. Poor singing day.
Toads trilling & Hylas peeping in 
great numbers past two nights & days. 
Only one shadbush on place in bloom.