Milton - Cambridge - Boston
Ther. [thermometer] MON. [Monday] MAY 24, 1909 Wea. [Weather]
Clear & warm. 
 A perfect May day. 
Left Milton this morning returning
home about 10 A.M.  A 
Yellow-billed Cuckoo & Swainson's 
Thrush in garden, 2 Swifts 
flying over it. I have not seen
any of these birds here before 
this spring. Spent most of
day writing. To Boston at
evening to dine at Union Club 
with Mr. Leverett, his guide 
Mr. Masterman and his friend
Dr. Sherman. We talked chiefly
about the Marin woods. 
Mr Leverett had just returned 
from a month's absence in the 
South & West & in Canada. 
I got home at 10.30.

Cambridge - Concord.
Ther. [Thermometer] TUES. [Monday] MAY 25, 1909 Wea. [Weather]
Clear and cool.   
  Partly cloudy but chiefly sunny. High &
cold N. [north] wind. 
  The Garden swarming with birds  
chiefly north bound migrants that
arrived last night. Spent most of 
forenoon with them listing in my
journal just 30 species seen within 
our boundary fences among them a 
Bay breasted W. [bay-breasted warbler] [in full song] & a Lincoln's Sparrow [in full song]
  Visited the Dr. Wyman place & walked 
up Brattle St to Fayerweather but found 
no birds save in our grounds. 
J.H. Baker, however, met with big 
flock in Maple St & many in one hazel on
Lake View Avenue. He and Sam Eliot 
were in our garden when I went out 
just after breakfast. 
  To Concord with Purdie [Henry A. Purdie] & Gilbert [Robert A. Gilbert] by
5.01 train. Spent night at Ball's Hill. 
Very few migrants there, a Magnolia Warbler
seen & Blackburnian heard