Concord ( Farm)
Ther [Thermometer] Saturday, May 8, 1915 Wea [Weather]
Fair
  Forenoon cloudy; afternoon sunny
Warm with light westerly wind.
Raining heavily all last night to 6  A.M.
  Arrivals
Chestnut-sided Warbler 2 [in full song]
Crested Flycatcher 1 [in full song] near house - daybreak
Kingbird. Bensen’s pasture
  North bound migrants
Yellow rump Warbler [Yellow-rumped Warbler] 7 or 8 one [in full song]
Peabody bird 1 [in full song]
  Local birds
2 Brown Thrashers [in full song] (Farm & Bensen’s)
2 Least Flycatchers [Farm & Bensen’s]
2 Bobolinks [Farm & Bensen’s]
Singing freely all day by Purple F. [Purple Finch],
Chippies [Chipping Sparrow], Bobolinks, Meadow Lark [Meadowlark]
Robins, Peabody bird, Black thr. Green [Black-throated Green Warbler]
& Nashville Warblers etc. Partridge
drumming. Bittern pumping at eve towards
Dakin’s Hill.
  Spent most of day transplanting
flowering plants. Walked to Bensen’s
at 8 A.M. with Tim. He killed a big
Woodchuck in Ritchie place on way back.

Concord (Farm)
Ther [Thermometer] Sunday, May 9, 1915 Wea [Weather]
Apple trees in fullest bloom. Fine
  Clear and warm with high N.W. [northwest] 
wind. Cool at evening.
  Arrivals
Catbird. [male] singing in forsythia thicket
front of house at sunrise & through most 
of forenoon. Two together (evidently mated
pair) there at 5 P.M.
Baltimore Oriole 2 [males] [in full song] in elms near
house sunrise to noon day.
Red-eyed Vireo [male] [in full song] Pulpit R. woods [Pulpit Rock woods] 10  A.M.
Blackburnian Warbler [male in full song Pulpit Rock woods 10  A.M.]
No northbound migrants noted.
No marked increase of local birds.
Free & delightful singing all
forenoon. Bird music everywhere.
  Shortly after breakfast Burbank
& I went to Birch Field to dig
some pines. I had intended to
leave them at Galloupe’s on way to
Cambridge but gave up trip for
Mrs. Melvin came at 10.30 to
consult me about her will & Alice
Stone & Mrs. Emerson came at 3 P.M.
for a friendly call.
[margin]Saw a young Rabbit about 1/4 grown in lawn.[margin]