Concord (Farm)
Ther [Thermometer] Friday, April 2, 1915 Wea [Weather]
Fair
Partly sunny, partly cloudy.
Cool with light westerly wind.
  Farm birds: 2 Bluebirds, a 
Robin & 3 Song Sparrows singing
near house between 6 & 7 A.M.
Saw 3 Robins together in field
[male] Cowbird in door yard elms.
Pheasants crowing in various
directions in early morn &
again at eve. 2 silent Fox 
Sparrows in Cedar Park.
Started 3 Partridges all together
in Pulpit Rock woods.
  Listened in vain for Wood Frogs
& Hylas. All conditions ripe
for them to be vocal.
  Spent about half of day out of
doors about the Farm. Put
up bird boxes & cleaned out
some left up over winter. In
one found a Gray Squirrel.
No Red Squirrels seen or heard
as yet.
Concord - Cambridge
Ther [Thermometer] Saturday, April 3, 1915 Wea
Heavy snow fall. Stormy
Forenoon dark cloudy with intensely
chill North-east wind blowing half a gale.
Snowing thick & fast all afternoon
& up to about 9 P.M., loading branches
of trees & covering ground to depth
of fully ten inches.
  Spent most of forenoon at Farm &
part of it with Burbank & George who
were hauling stones on a drag with
our horse, Prince, and placing them
for filling in hollows in roadways.
The piercing north-east wind made 
it uncomfortable out of doors unless one
kept moving briskly. Saw few birds.
Only a Bluebird & a Song Sparrow singing.
  In the Ford car, with all its leather curtains
buttoned on tight, Gilbert [Robert A. Gilbert] & I started for
Cambridge via Concord at 11 A.M. The
strong wind beat incessantly against  our
canopy, but this sheltered us perfectly. Snow
began falling as we passed Lexington & was
coming thick & fast when we reached home at noon.
May Cunningham lunched with C. [Caroline Brewster] E.R.S. [Elizabeth R. Simmons] & me
C. read war news & E.R.S. The Duke's Children, in 
the evening.