Concord
Ther [Thermometer] SAT.  MAY 10, 1913 [Saturday, May 10, 1913] Wea [Weather]
48º max. [48 degrees maximum]   Fair
Sunny but cold with strong, harsh
N.W. [northwest] wind. Snow squall at 9 A.M.
  Ther. [Thermometer] rose only to 48º in middle of day.
  Spent forenoon in house writing
letters. Smith Dexter came down
to dinner. We walked to Ball's Hill
after it. Very few birds seen or
heard. Blackburnian Warbler
singing at Pulpit Rock, another in
Prescott's pines. On reaching the
river we saw all at once a
Fish Hawk & a flock of 5 Black
Ducks flying over it, a Bittern
in the marsh across it & another
rising from the shore on our 
side.
Edwin De Merritte & his daughter
Florence arrived at 5 to pass
Sunday. We went to Birch Field
before supper. 
Concord
Ther [Thermometer] SUN. MAY 11, 1913 [Sunday, May 11, 1913]  Wea [Weather]
33º-52º [33 degrees-52 degrees]  Fine
Clear & cold with raging N.W. [northwest] wind.
More like March than May.
Scarcely any birds to be seen or
heard anywhere. Duren reports ice
this morning in Carlisle. No
signs of damage to vegetation here.
The De Merrittes & I walked to
Ball's Hill & back in the forenoon.
Heard 2 Blackburnians. In 
Prescott pines heard 3 male
Solitary Vireos in full song at once, 
one of them in nest near end of
long pine branch at least 25 feet.
In P.M. we went to Green Hill.
Mr. Hutchins has utterly ruined 
its beauty by grubbing up practically
all the ground junipers & very many 
of the cedars. Fields blue with
birds foot violets [bird's-foot violets]. Nodding trillium
abundant near old [well?] Rhodora
[abundant] in swamps. [?] station for [?]