Concord (Farm)
Ther [Thermometer]  THURS. MAY 22, 1913 [Thursday, May 22, 1913] Wea [Weather]
Stormy
  Densely cloudy with light easterly
wind and fine rain at intervals-
  First Wood Pewee.
  Spent most of day with
Zeph & Tom clearing out the 
Bungalow shed & corn barn.
Birds singing freely but no
north bound migrants noted.
Zeph showed me a chippy's [chipping sparrow's] nest,
charmingly ensconced in clematis
vine on Bungalow piazza & having 
3 eggs. The Chippy [Chipping Sparrow] rambled about in 
open shed. 2 Song Sparrows fed in
clearing, 3 Barn Swallows about house.
[Male] House Wren there answering, song for 
song, the one at our wood shed.
[Phoebe?] singing freely all day & 
Downy [Downy Woodpecker] drumming about ceaselessly.
Jim Melvin came at 1 P.M. & 
took us to Sleepy Hollow Cemetery
where I heard a Wood [Pewee?], Usnea
& Pine Warblers.
[margin] Saw a [?]  Starling on wing near 
Darby Ferguson's, Concord, [?] [?]
Concord (Farm)
Ther [Thermometer]   FRI. MAY 23, 1913 [Friday, May 23, 1913]   Wea
Stormy.
  Raining almost all day, very heavily
at nightfall. Calm, mild.
  Tennessee Warbler in full song at intervals
through forenoon in tall oak & elms near
barn. Blackburnian, Usnea Warbler &
Canadian Warbler there, also. Water Thrush
singing in tree over road near big elm.
All our summer resident birds (except
Thrasher & Grosbeak) singing gloriously
from day break to dark. Rarely can
one hear a better concert. The Wood
Thrush in run took part in it freely.
The Phoebes nesting in shed were feeding
young in nest which made a constant
calling. Tee-c-e, very like that of Cedar
Waxwings. Old birds hovering about our
[?] picking [?] from their beaks.
At 4 P.M. saw [male] cow-bird copulate
with female on ground front of house.
Cleared up old barn in forenoon.
Set out 100 strawberry plants in P.M.