Concord (Ball's Hill & Farm)
Ther [Thermometer] WED.  JUNE 25, 1913 [Wednesday, June 25, 1913] Wea [Weather]
Dull
Cloudy & cool with strong,
chill N.E. [northeast] wind.
  Birds very quiet. Heard only
a few in early morning, chiefly
Red-wings [Red-winged Blackbirds] & Song Sparrows with 
a Quail in distance. The Phoebees [sic] [Phoebes] 
sang long & well, however. 
We [moved?] to Farm after
breakfast. Two carpenters & our
Italian laborer working all day
at Bungalow. Zeph, Tom & I
worked on the fence of new
chicken yard to enclose cherry
orchard. We got in all the
posts & braces & 2 gates. Cherries
dead ripe & delicious. S'rawberries [strawberries] 
past their best. Whole place
alive with young House Wrens
chattering for food. Mosquitos bad.
Concord (Farm)
Ther [Thermometer] THURS. JUNE 26, 1913 [Thursday, June 26, 1913] Wea [Weather]
Dull
Cloudy & calm. Rather cool.
  Birds singing freely & delightfully
all day - Robins, Song Sparrows,
1 Cat bird [Catbird], Chippy [Chipping Sparrow], Indigo Bird,
Red eyed [Red-eyed Vireo] & Solitary Vireo, Tanager
(in trees close to house) Phoebee[Phoebe], Least Flycatcher,
both House Wrens, Cuckoos of
both kinds, Vesper Sparrows etc.
Almost no tree nesting birds seen.
Chippins [Chipping sparrows] seem to have reared young 
this year near our house. I have
not seen or heard a single young
Robin yet. I find egg shells on 
ground everywhere about place. Yet
Jays are very scarce here this season.
  Spent all day working with my
men. We finished new chicken yard
Hosmer & 2 men put up [?] shed.
Smith Dexter came to [?] [?]
[margin] Came to the Dawsons to say good bye.[/margin]