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Ther [Thermometer] TUES. APRIL 22, 1913 [Tuesday, April 22, 1913] Wea [Weather]
First mosquitos biting       Fine
Sunny & warm with light,
soft southerly winds.
First Bittern & Pied billed Greebe  [Grebe]
Dandelion (one only) blood root,
moss pink & hooded violets.
  Spent most of day at
Farm superintending work 
of men. Four were getting loam
for circular flower bed in front
of barn & two hauling cord
wood out into road to Bensen's.
Saw & heard only a very few birds.
Started for Ball's Hill at 4 P.M.
Partridge drumming in Birch Field &
another near the spring. On reaching
river heard a Bittern jumping &
later a Pied-bill Greebe [Grebe].Two Robins
& a Phoebe singing near cabin at
sunset. Delightful singing of Red wings [Red-winged Blackbirds]
scattered over flooded meadows.
Pine Warb. [Pine Warblers] & Song Sparrows.
[margin] Full chorus of Hylas & a few Toads. Mosquitos biting at eve [evening].[/margin]
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Ther [Thermometer] WED. APRIL 23, 1913 [Wednesday, April 23, 1913] Wea [Weather]
Fine
Raining in early morn. Sunny after 8.30.
Uncomfortably warm with light S. [south] wind.
  Robin, Phoebe, Song Sparrow & Red Wings [Red-Winged Blackbirds]
singing delightfully close to cabin
in early morn. Also Pine W. [Pine Warbler] & Chickadee.
2 Yellow-rumps [Yellow -rumped Warblers] & 2 Yellow Palm W. [Yellow Palm Warblers]
in front of cabin. Swamp Sparrows [in full song]
in swamp behind hill. Bittern silent.
Started for Farm at 8 A.M.
  Spent day staking out roads &
planning things alone. Pat, Zeph,
George & Tom splitting birch wood.
  Plenty of birds about &
singing freely all day. Partridge
drumming in the run. Swallows 
twittering ceaselessly about all
the boxes. Will Stone joined
me at 5.30 P.M. We had a 
short walk before supper.
[margin] Toads & Hylas in full cry everywhere this evening [/margin]