Concord.
Ther. [Thermometer] SUN. [Sunday] MAY 22, 1910 Wea. [Weather]
Mixed
Forenoon sunny & warm; afternoon 
cloudy with chill east wind.
Glorious bird music close about
house all forenoon, carrying me back
to our Cambridge place in the days 
of my youth only there are birds
here in greater number & variety than
we ever had there in my time.
The Robins, Purple Finch, Yellow Warblers,
Redstarts, Orioles, Grosbeak, Tanager,
Indigo bird, Cuckoos, Song Sparrows
& Crested Flycatcher with a 
Yellow-throated & a Red-eyed Vireo & 
2 Cat birds were most in evidence.
  Rambled about farm for three hours
after breakfast. Wrote letters most
of afternoon. Walked up road to
Everett Mason's at evening. A Hermit
Thrush singing beyond our berry pasture.

Concord.
Ther. [Thermometer] MON. [Monday] MAY 23, 1910 Wea. [Weather]
Dull
Cloudy with warm but damp S.W. [Southwest] 
wind.
  No arrivals, no northern-breeding
birds lingering. Mr. Dexter reports
the same conditions at Concord.
it almost looks as if the migration
were over with a number of
our regularly common migrants not
noted at all.
  Spent entire day with James &
Harry cutting down elms & poplars &
peeling them to serve as fence posts.
We got the elms in the Berry Pasture
where we worked all forenoon & the
poplars all (P. grandidentata [Populus grandidentata]) on the
road to Bensen's near Deep Hollow.
After the men stopped work I went
on to Birch Island woods. Very many
oaks & a few planes there have been 
killed by gypsy & browntail moths.
Saw 3 Doves in Green Field.