Cambridge - Concord.
Ther. [Thermometer] Wed. [Wednesday] April 20, 1910 Wea. [Weather]
Fine.
Clear & warm with fresh S.W. [southwest] wind.
  Spent most of day in Museum
& garden writing letters & transplanting
things. At 9.30 A.M. I heard by
telephone from Mackintire that
Herbert Watson died about 2 A.M.
to-day. Later I talked by tel. [telephone] with
Arthur Estabrook who got home yesterday.
Took 5 P.M. train to Concord. Saw pear 
trees all over our part of Cambridge in 
half bloom & one in full bloom. At 
Concord found Shad bushes in full
bloom, breaking all records. Walked
along river path before supper. Three
Bitterns pumping widely separated. Same
two evidently a pair & watched them
half an hour. The [male] pumped many times
but showed no trace of white ruffs.
Saw a Muskrat, the first this year. 
13 Cedar birds in Parkman's apple in our 
Garden this forenoon. Saw two pass
a berry [an apple] back & forth many times. 

Concord.
Ther. [Thermometer] Thurs. [Thursday] April 21, 1910 Wea. [Weather]
Fine.
Forenoon sunny but hazy & 
nearly dead calm. Afternoon clear
& cool with fresh E. [East] wind.
  Spent almost entire day trying
to shoot a Bittern with white
ruffs. Two of the three or four I
saw showed them conspicuously but
both birds kept well out in Great
Meadow where I could not get
near them in the canoe and I
tried in vain to stalk them for
there was no cover and they would 
not let me approach nearer than 100
yards before they took wing. I caught
3 Spotted & 1 Painted Tortoise in
Howe's Meadow using a hand net.
Gilbert caught 3 Perch. We had
them fried for supper. Saw a hen 
Partridge budding in apple tree at
evening.