Concord (Farm)
Ther [Thermometer] TUES. MAY 20, 1913 [Tuesday, May 20, 1913] Wea [Weather]
Fine
Clear & cool with fresh N.W. [northwest] 
wind. 
Usnea Warbler singing in elms 
Cedar-bird [Cedar Waxwing] heard in orchard
(apple trees now out of bloom).
All other birds seen or heard
to-day were locally resident ones
- except Greater Yellow legs [Greater Yellowlegs] heard
in distance towards river.
There was good & well sustained
but not exuberant singing all
day, chiefly from Oriole, Grosbeak,
Cat-bird [Catbird], Song Sparrow, Bobolink,
Meadow Lark [Meadowlark], Tanager & Robin.
  Spent nearly whole day working
with Zeph in apple orchard pruning
the trees, especially about young grafts.
  Margaret French surprised me by
appearing at house at noon. She
stayed about [half] hour & walked down
& back. Hosmer came at same time to
see about carpenter work.
Concord (Farm & Ball's Hill)
Ther [Thermometer] WED. MAY 21, 1913 [Wednesday, May 21, 1913] Wea [Weather]
Fine
Forenoon sunny calm & warm.
Afternoon cloudy with chill E. [east] wind.
Raining at 8 P.M.
First Tennessee Warbler, Black-poll [Blackpoll Warbler]
& Nighthawk. Moderate flight of
north bound migrants.
  At 8 A.M heard & saw a Tennessee W. [Tennessee Warbler]
in tops of oaks behind barn. With him
a Black poll [male] [in full song] [Blackpoll Warbler [male] [in full song] & [2 male] [1 female] Usnea Warblers.
A little later found in Berry Pas. [Berry Pasture] about
little pond a Water Thrush [male] [in full song] Wilson's
Black cap [Wilson's Black-capped Warbler] [male] [in full song] Canada W. [Canada Warbler] [male], Magnolia [Magnolia Warbler] [female].
Dan French, Margaret F. [French], Jim Melvin,
Mr. [?] & an Italian came in
motor car at 10 A.M. & stayed about
20 minutes. I walked with Zeph &
Tom through middle of day about
place. In late P.M. walked to Ball's
Hill. Mosquitoes bad there. At Holden's
Hill a [male] Red sh. Hawk [male Red-shouldered Hawk] [?] [?] &
swooped at me 6 times passing close.