Concord.
Ther. [Thermometer] SAT.  APRIL 12, 1913 [Saturday, April 12, 1913] Wea. [Weather]
Rainy
Cloudy & very warm with light
southerly winds. Raining all forenoon.
First Chippy [Chipping Sparrow] [in full song] & Field Sparrow [in full song] 
Birds singing freely & plentifully
everywhere all day long. Very
many must have come last
night. At Ball's Hill I heard
a Robin, Chickadee, Pine Warbler,
Song Sparrows, Redwings & Meadow Lark
  Moved to Farm at 8.30 &
spent most of day transplanting
trees & setting out plants.
A lot of fruit trees from Chase
Nurseries came by [?] & were 
heeled in. All day long I was 
serenated [serenaded] wherever I went by
delightful bird music - Robins,
Bluebird, Juncos, Song Sparrows, etc.
Best of all the ceaseless happy
calling of Tree Swallows about their boxes.
[margin]1 pair Phoebes began nest in barn cellar, another in horse shed.[/margin]
Concord
Ther. [Thermometer] SUN.  APRIL 13, 1913 [Sunday, April 13, 1913] Wea. [Weather]
Rainy
Raining all day, at times hard.
Cooler with light N.E. [northeast] wind.
  Spent forenoon in house writing
letters; afternoon out of door
strolling about outskirts of Farm
& through Birch Field cutting off 
brown tail nests & pulling egg
clusters of tent caterpillar off
wild cherry saplings - a better
& easier way to deal with these
pests than to wait until they
hatch & form their nests.
Not many birds in evidence.
2 Coopers Hawk barking in dead
oak in Birch Field. A Robin
singing there, another at Ritchie pl. [Ritchie place]
a third at Farm. 2 Juncos.
Pheasants crowing & flapping wings