Concord. (Ball's Hill & Farm)
Ther. [Thermometer] Fri. [Friday] May 14, 1909 Wea. [Weather]
Partly cloudy.
Middle of day clear & hot. Cloudy
at noon & eve. [evening] the latter sultry.
Arrivals Water Thrush 1, Red eye V. [red-eyed vireo] 1 [in full song]
Wilson's Snipe 1 [in full song].
  22 Bats in wood shed loft.
Spent forenoon at Ball's Hill.
Billcliffe working in my cabin.
Lots of small birds, chiefly Warblers, 
over the hill but nothing unusual
among them. To Farm at 2 P.M.
Had supper there. Apple trees in
nearly full bloom. Great numbers of 
birds about house, but only a few
northern migrants. Charming chorus
of song at sunset. Walked back
to Ball's Hill at evening. Hylas,
Common & Fowler's Toads & Pickerel Frogs & 
Tree Toads in full cry. Heard a Snipe
drum twice. Also a meadow call like
Sora Rail but querulous & queer.
[margin]Gilbert counted 11 eggs in the Partridge nest. Must have been at
least 10 yesterday but
I saw only 6.[/margin]

Concord. (Ball's Hill)
Ther. [Thermometer] Sat. [Saturday] May 15, 1909 Wea. [Weather]
Clear.
  Forenoon intensely hot. Cool E. [East]
wind after 3 P.M. Clouds at sunset.
Arrival Wood Thrush 1 [in full song], (Holden Hill).
Spent day at Ball's Hill, chiefly
in my cabin where Billcliff was at work.
Only a few birds about among them
a Wilson's Blackcap, an Usnea Warbler,
a Tanager, a Solitary Vireo & a Grosbeak.
Three ladies called in canoe. They saw 
lots of Bobolinks above the Holt.
Paddled up river at eve. [evening. Sat still
in canoe for half an hour at Lagoon.
Heard Whippoorwill, Bitterns (2); Carolina
Rail (the bird hd. [heard] last eve. [evening]); several Snipes
scarping & one drumming many times;
Greater Yellow legs; Spotted Sandpiper,
Red-wings, Swamp Sparrows etc. A 
Wood Thrush singing on Holden Hill.
Had 4 Muskrats in sight at once.
[margin]Bull Frogs bellowing for
first time - several of them.[/margin]