Concord (Ball's Hill & Farm)
Ther [Thermometer]  MON. JUNE 23, 1913 [Monday, June 23, 1913] Wea [Weather]
Fine.
Clear & comfortably cool (or 
warm) with light S.W. [southwest] wind.
  Birds singing well in early
morning. Plenty of them about
Ball's Hill but literally none
except the Phoebees [Phoebes] near cabins.
Perhaps the Jays keep them away
but the Jays have left with their young.
At evening we had a fine concert
of veeries across river & a cat bird [catbird]
there. The Yellow Warbler is [?]
[?] off. the][?] sang listlessly.
Quail whistling afar off. No
Whippoorwill this year. Spent
day at Farm. Birds disappearing
there. Failed to hear either of the
Redstarts or the Wood Pewee or the
Yellow-thr. Vireo [Yellow-throated Vireo]. Hosmer & 3
men began work on Bungalow [sted?]
barn lowering floor. Pat came 
down to get back pay. He is drinking[?] 
Concord (Ball's Hill & Farm)
Ther [Thermometer] TUES. JUNE 24, 1913 [Tuesday, June 24, 1913] Wea [Weather]
  Clear & oppressively warm with
light southerly wind.
Lying awake in my cabin with
doors & windows open, from daybreak
to rising time (6.30) I noted &
enjoyed exceedingly the oncoming of
a typical midsummer day. Between
day break & sunrise the air was calm
& the silence almost unbroken by
any bird voice while the Frogs, also, were
quiet. After sunrise the birds sang
long and joyously, very many of them
far & near. Robins, Redwings, Song 
Sparrows, Yellow W. [Yellow Warbler], Chestnut- Side [Chestnut-sided Warbler], 
Oven birds, Phoebee (sweetest voiced
of all) [?] Quail [?]. Kingfishers very
near cabin rattling & spashing.
To Farm in motor car at 8.15.
Birds singing freely there. Heard
Wood Pewee & one Redstarl.
4 carpenters & 2 masons. [Scotty?]
blasted huge boulder near well.
I had a feast of delicious Cherries.
Young House Wrens left box on [carriage?]
shed about noon. Walked back at
5.30. [?] singing, Birch Field. 
[margin] Trees there interesting [forms?]. almost 
actually [deepest?] of foliage now. [/margin]