Concord - Cambridge - Concord.
Ther [Thermometer] SAT. JUNE 21, 1913 [Saturday, June 21, 1913]Wea [Weather]
Dr. Coolidge's funeral.                      Fair
Raining heavily last night &
in early morning. Forenoon cloudy.
Afternoon sunny & oppressively warm.
  Grosbeak singing gloriously on hill
where I left it at 7.45 A.M. &
Bobolink in fullest song across river. 
Walking along R.R. track saw a [female]
Starling perched on telegraph pole.
Took 8.13 train to Cambridge.
  Reached home at 9.15. Spent
forenoon in Museum writing letters.
  To Christ Church at 1.45, to
act as one of the ushers at Dr. Coolidge's
funeral. Among the others were
Geo. Deane [George Deane], Rob. Greenough [Robert Greenough], Edward
Channing & Dr. Huntington. Church
comfortably filled. Regulation service.
Back to Concord by 5.05 train.
  Bull Frogs & Fowler's Toads in full
cry this eve [evening]. Hardly any mosquitos [mosquitoes].
Concord (Ball's Hill & Farm)
Ther [Thermometer] SUN. JUNE 22, 1913  [Sunday, June 22, 1913] Wea [Weather]
Fine
  Clear & rather cool with light
northerly winds. 
  Spent forenoon on & about Ball's
Hill inspecting gypsy moth conditions.
The hill is so nearly cleared of larvae
by recent spraying that I found but two.
Larch grove & neighborhood almost equally
clear. Blakemore ridge begins to be
reinfested but only very lightly. It
may go [through?] another year. Davis Hill
terribly infested & oaks well nigh bare.
Canada Warbler singing in Davis Sw. [Davis Swamp] &
another in Ball's Hill Sw. [Ball's Hill Swamp]. At least 5
D. virens [Dendroica virens] singing on Pine Hill.
  Spent P.M. at Farm. Gilbert [Robert Alexander Gilbert] took me up
& back. Robins, Tanager, Cat-bird [Catbird], Chippy [Chipping Sparrow]
& Phoebe singing. Abundance ripe cherries.
Wrote letters for 3 hours. After supper
walked around Ball's Hill, to swamp.
2 Veeries & Canada W. [Canada Warbler] singing there.
[margin]Full & superb chorus Bull Frogs this eve. Also Fowler's Toads in full cry.[/margin]
