Cambridge - Concord.
Ther [Thermometer] SAT. MAR. 15, 1913 [Saturday, March 15, 1913] Wea [Weather]
64 [64 degrees] at 7.30 a.m.      Dull
First Butterfly - a brown one
Cloudy & very warm with strong S.W. [southwest] 
wind. Raining most of P.M.
  Gilbert [Robert Alexander Gilbert] & I took 7.50 train to Concord 
[?] drove us to farm. Pat went
with us. No snow & very little ice.
Roads deep in sticky mud. River low
for season. Only about 1/2 Great M. [Great Meadows]
flooded. Grass land soggy & brown.
Snow drops [snowdrops] & ladies delights in bloom
at Farm, yellow crocuses at Ball's Hill.
  Spent forenoon at Farm opening house
etc. [?] rooms dripping with moisture.
Bluebird, Song Sp. [Song Sparrow] & Junco & Flicker
singing. "Harry's Crow" cawing. Pheasant
crowing. Meadow Lark [in full song] opp. [opposite] Howe's.
  To Ball's Hill after dinner. Uncovered
flower beds. Everything started.
  Heard Chickadee. Saw Junco & 4
Pheasants [in a flock]. 7 Red wings [Red-winged Blackbird] [in a flock] [in full song] near Bensen's.
[margin]One or two Hylas peeping feebly & intermittently 7 - 9 P.M.[/margin]
Concord.
Ther [Thermometer] SUN. MAR.16, 1913 [Sunday, March 16, 1913] Wea [Weather]
Dull.
Cloudy & mild with fresh & rather
cool S.W. [Southwest] wind.
  No birds heard through my wide
open windows before breakfast. Just
after it I heard a Bluebird, a
Northern Shrike, 2 Flickers (at once)
& Red wings [Red-winged Blackbird]. The Shrike perched on
an apple tree across road in Lawrence's
field, sang unceasingly & very sweetly
for 10 minutes or more. Saw a
Robin in Berry Pasture this
morning & 5 more flying N. [north] over
Birch Field at evening. At former
place & house saw a [male] Crow Blackbird
flying west, at latter heard wing
whistle of Golden eye Ducks. [Goldeneye Ducks] [at?]
  Took short walk near house 9 -10
A.M. Wrote letters through day.
Walked to Bensen's 4 - 6 P.M.