Bethel - Boston - Concord.
Ther [Thermometer] WED. MAY 28, 1913 [Wednesday, May 28, 1913] Wea [Weather]
Meadow Lark at Bethel    Stormy.
Cloudy with chill N.E. [northeast] wind &
fine, driving rain - a gloomy day
  Left Bethel at 9 A.M. & reached
Portland at 11.55 taking 12.05
train for Boston. While at R.R. station [railroad
station] at Bethel heard in the 
fields across the track a Meadow
Lark [Meadowlark] in full song, my first record
for this region. Bobolinks there.
Yellow - bellied Flycatcher calling in
swampy woods & Dr. Gehring's [?].
  Dined in dining car on way to
Boston. Reaching there went to our 
office. Talked with Arthur & Galloupe.
Took 4.51 train for W.Bedford [West Bedford] 
& electric car to W. Bedford where
Zeph ferried me over the river
which has [reflooded?] [?].
Walked thence to Farm.
Concord (Farm & Ball's Hill)
Ther [Thermometer] THURS. MAY 29, 1913 [Thursday, May 29, 1913] Wea [Weather]
Fair.
Partly sunny, largely cloudy,
with not infrequent & sometimes
heavy showers Very cool with high
N.W. [northwest] wind. An autumn like day.
Not much singing. Birds silenced
for most part by cool wind.
North-bound migrants apparently
all gone past. Did not see or hear
one. Flight of 24th & 25th doubtless
the heaviest & perhaps the last of
the season.
  Short walk about Farm just
after breakfast. Remainder of A.M.
& early part of P.M. spent writing
letters. To Ball's Hill in mid
P.M. Fair numbers Swallows &
a few Swifts over river. Blue Jay
on nest within 20 ft. [feet] of well house.
Crested Flycatcher, Kingbird, Oven bird,
Pine Warbler & 2 Song Sparrows heard
on hill. Mosquitos bad. Lupines in bloom.