Concord (Farm)
Ther [Thermometer] Thursday, May 20, 1915 Wea [Weather] 
Fine
Clear & cool with fresh N.W. [northwest] wind
Heavy frost in lowlands last night.
  Arrival
Hummingbird. [female] at tulips front of house
7 A.M., [male] at columbines near barn 9 A.M.
  North-bound Migrants
Tennessee Warbler [male] [in full song] 7-8 A.M. in tree
over road south of big elm, Usnea
Warbler 1 [in full song], White thr. Sparrow [White-throated Sparrow] 2 (1 [in full song] )
  Local birds
No marked increase but
Chestnut Side Warblers [Chestnut-sided Warbler] apparently 
more numerous than heretofore.
  Spent most of day in the
woods with Burbank spraying
bushes & low trees along east roads.
He worked the pump & I the
spray pipe. Gypsies bad in spots
but not generally dispersed.
Only a few tent & forest tents.
(Dexter reports (by tel [telephone]) 2 Bicknell's
Thrushes, 1 Canadian Warbler, 1 Tennessee [Tennessee Warbler]
1 Red bellied Nuthatch, Fairyland woods
to day)

Concord (Farm)
Marsh Hawk killing chickens
Ther [Thermometer] Friday, May 21, 1915 Wea [Weather] 
First flight migrant warblers. Dull.
Light cloudy with light easterly to
southerly wind. Rather warm.
  Arrivals
Yellow-bellied Flycatcher 1 [in full song] calling pee-e &
occasionally uttering che-l'at song note in
west part of run near Cedar Park.
Water Thrush [male] [in full song] in same locality.
It was thronged with Warblers of 
several species, most apparently north bound.
Among them were [male] [in full song] Black throated
Blue [Black-throated Blue Warbler], a Magnolia [Magnolia Warbler], several Parulas [Parula Warbler], &
Black-throated Greens [Black-throated Green Warbler], a Blackburnian [Blackburnian Warbler],
a Redstart, a Nashville [Nashville Warbler] & a [male] [in full song] Golden
wing [Golden-winged Warbler] (typical bird well seen). There
was also a Swainson's Thrush &
a Veery. This was literally the first
flock of migrant warblers that I have
met with here this month. I saw
more elsewhere to-day. Local birds
singing freely & delightfully at all
hours. flooding air with their music.
Burbank brought me tail & wing of [male] owl.
Marsh Hawk caught about a week ago
by Mr. Abbott Lawrence in steel trap
baited with dead chicken.
Spraying all day with Duren in Berry Pas [Berry Pasture]
& Birch Field.