Concord (Farm).
Ther [Thermometer] WED. MAY 14, 1913 [Wednesday, May 14, 1913] Wea [Weather]
Fine
 Brilliantly clear with fresh N.W. [northwest]
wind. Cool at morn [morning] & eve [evening]. Day warm.
First Golden- wing [Golden-winged Warbler] & Magnolia W. [Magnolia Warbler]
one each, heard in run at 7 A.M.
Warbling Vireo, Red-eye [Red-eyed Vireo], Tanager,
Grosbeak [Rose-breasted Grosbeak], Oriole, [Chebe?], etc. singing
near house at same hour. I was 
out with 22 Cal. [Calibre] rifle then & shot at
a Crow, one of a pair watching our
young chickens behind barn. 
 Spent entire day with [Duren?],
spraying orchard trees in forenoon
& along wood roads in P.M. 
At 11 A.M I was no less
surprised than pleased to have a 
short call from Harry Austen
of Halifax, whom I have never
seen before. Something [?] a [?]
flight of [?] to-day. At [?]
4 [?] seeks [?] singing [?] [?].
Ther. [Thermometer] THURS. MAY 15, 1913 [Thursday, May 15, 1913] Wea. [Weather]
Fine
Sunny & pleasingly warmer
with light variable winds.
  First Yellow-th. Vireo [Yellow-throated Vireo] &
Whippoorwill at Farm. Many common
birds including a superb-voiced
Thrasher singing all day long
close about house.  A male Blackburnian
Warbler who spent entire day in 
[?] in [?] and sang by turns
-or intervals, rather - his own 
normal song and that of the
Cape May Warbler. The latter was so
absolutely typical that I felt sure
it came from a Cape May until I 
actually saw the Blackburnian utter
it repeatedly..He used it altogether
in late P.M. No indication of any
[?] bird [?] today. 
  Spent entire day out of doors -
rambling about in woods, working
garden, [?] rearrangement of 
lumber in Ritchies' shed.