Concord.
Ther. [Thermometer] THURS. [Thursday] MAY 20, 1909 Wea. [Weather]
Clear & cool.
Cloudless with cool E. [East] wind.
  Arrival Least Sandpiper 4 [in a flock],
Canadian Warbler [in full song], the former
feeding on edge of our boat canal.
  Spent day at Ball's Hill.
We finished the floating boat
house and the sculling float
before noon & cut down some
pines behind the hill after dinner.
Larry while beating about in the
bushes near us started 4 young
Rabbits about 1/4 grown & caught and 
bit at least 2 of them. Pat spent
entire day getting ferns on the
W. Bedford [West Bedford] shore & setting them out
near the cabin. I went to Farm
at 4.30. Very attractive there.
Apple trees still in full bloom.
Walked back via Holden's Hill.

Concord, Cambridge.
Ther. [Thermometer] FRI. [Friday] MAY 21, 1909 Wea. [Weather]
Cloudy & cool.
A gray day with piercingly chilly
east wind. 
  Spent most of day at Ball's Hill.
Billcliffe began another floating 
boat house but did not finish it
The other men worked at various
things putting away boats etc.
It was so gloomy & cold after 9 A.M.
that few birds sang although I
heard many in early morn. The
snipe was drumming about 7. I
saw him high in air meandering 
over the river & marsh opposite cabins.
Gilbert & I with Larry took 4.24 train
to Cambridge. Mrs. Eliot, Miss Scudder
& Miss Heppin were on it. I saw them
at Arlington. Soon after reaching home
heard Pine Linnet in full song in Garden.
Also 2 Robins & an Oriole. Spent a 
solitary evening in one solitary house.