MEMORANDA
May 27 First Fire Flies - Scores. Great M [Great Meadow]
[May 27] 2 Loons mig. [migrating] 8 A.M. high up.
[May 27] 20 Bats in Shed at Farm.
[May] 28 Locust trees & lupine in bloom.
[May] 30 Snapping, Musk & Painted Turtles
laying eggs everywhere at B.H. [Ball's Hill] to-day. 
June 12 Plenty of ripe cherries in the Garden
June 15 Clyde Strawberries ripe at Concord.
Sept. [September]1 Heavy nocturnal flight of migrating
 Warblers passing at midnight & later.
 Hitherto this month have heard only a few.
 Mild Weed Butterflies [Milkweed Butterflies] migrating S. [south]
 high in air all day & roosting at eve. [evening].
 Pickerings Hylas giving autumnal call.
 I first heard it about 2 days ago.
[September] 11: 2 Milk weed Butterflies mig. S. [migrating south] 10.30 A.M. 
 one about 60 ft. [feet] other at 1000 ft. [feet] elevation.
[September] 20 Tupelos & a few maples have turned
 red within past 48 hours, a few
 hickories golden yellow yesterday.
Oct. [October] 3 Red Maples along river in fullest blaze
 of autumn reds. Hickories at Farm
 in full gold livery
[October] 5 Red Maple foliage even more brilliant
 to-day than before.