Concord (Farm)
Ther [Thermometer] Thursday, April 8, 1915 Wea [Weather]
First Wood Frogs. Perfect.
[First] Phoebee [Phoebe]
  Brilliantly clear & deliciously
warm although the wind was
north west and very strong. The
snow melted fast everywhere and
none was left by sunset save in
drifts along walls.
  Wood Frogs vocal at last, croaking
by scores all afternoon & after night-
fall, in pond below orchard.
  First Phoebee [Phoebe], in full song 6-7
A.M. near house. One Robin singing
& three calling at sunset. Not
many Sparrows - 2 Fox, 3 or 4
Juncos, 2 or 3 Song. Red bellied
Nuthatch near Spring.
  I spent entire forenoon in
woods south of the Spring where
three men were hauling brush
to Birch Field & burning it there.
Wrote letters for a hour or two
after luncheon. Out again from
2.30 to 4.30 cutting brush on
hillside below orchard with
Burbank.
  
Concord (Farm)
Ther [Thermometer] Friday, April 9, 1915 Wea [Weather]
First Hyla Fine
Sunny and almost uncomfortably
warm with light southerly wind.
Hoar frost at sunrise; clouds gathering at
sunset. Grass showing green on banking
front of house. Wood Frogs in full
cry all day & now at 8 P.M. Heard a
Hyla peep a few times at 4 P.M.
  Arrivals. Flicker, one shouting near house
at sunrise & later; Tree Swallow, two,
apparently mated pair flying about bird
house at Ritchie place, 11.30 A.M.
At
  At 9 A.M. saw a large Cooper's Hawk,
apparently [female], fly low & deviously over
orchard, beating her wings almost
precisely like a Marsh Hawk & moving
no faster. She barked repeatedly. This
was a nuptial flight I thought.
  Not many small birds about 2
Fox Sparrows, 3 or 4 Songs [Song Sparrow], no Juncos.
Phoebee [Phoebe] sang all day, Bluebirds in P.M.
  Spent most of day with Burbank
grafting wild apple trees.