Concord (Farm)
Ther [Thermometer] SUN. MAY 18, 1913 [Sunday, May 18, 1913] Wea [Weather]
First Iris in bloom.      Fair
Cloudy & cool with light E. [east] wind.
First Wood Thrush & Black bill Cuckoo [Black-billed 
Cuckoo].
When I awoke at 6 A.M a
Wood Thrush, the first heard here
since 1910, was singing in the
Run at foot of lane. Lying in bed
with window closed I heard it at
intervals until 7.30. Many birds
singing close about house in early
morning among them Thrasher, Cat bird [Catbird],
Oriole, Yellow thr. Solitary [Yellow-throated Solitary [Vireo] ] & 
[Red-eyed Vireo]. Walked to Birch Id. [Birch Island] after
breakfast. Oven birds singing
everywhere. Sudden influx of Jays
Heard at least 15 of former & 10 of latter.
Spent most of day in house writing
letters. Called at the Howes in 
late P.M. & saw whole family
& Mrs. [?].
[margin]Whippoorwill singing front of house, I think on well curb, 8 P.M.[/margin]
Concord (Farm)
Ther [Thermometer] MON. MAY 19, 1913 [Monday, May 19, 1913] Wea [Weather]
Fine
Clear & cool with raging N.W. [northwest] wind.
First Swainson's Thrush & Hummingbird ([female])
Heard Magnolia Warbler's call note.
No other migrants noted. High wind
silenced most of local birds. Thrasher
singing freely in early morn [morning]. Cat bird [Catbird]
singing gloriously at evening, making
whistled call of Cow-bird [Cowbird] perfectly.
Heard a few bars from Wood Thrush
in run about sunrise. Two
Whippoorwills singing at [?] in evening
twilight towards N.W. [northwest]. Young in
Phoebe nest box [?]. House Wrens
building in box on shed. Another [male]
singing near hen house.
  Spent day about Farm working
mostly in flower garden. Men cut
down some elms near [corner?]. Mr. &
Mrs. Robbins of Onset, Mass. [Onset, Massachusetts] called
at 10.30 & stayed until noon. They
say W. Faxon [Walter Faxon] found nest of Brown
Creeper in [?] yesterday P.M.
[margin] another in Lexington in A.M. same day [/margin]