Concord
Ther [Thermometer] Wednesday, April 30, 1919 Wea [Weather]
45 [degrees], 64 [degrees] Fine
Clear with light westerly wind
changing to easterly in P.M. Cool at
morning & eve., warm at midday
Phlox subulata, Tulips, Cherry, Peach
& Plum trees & a few Dandelions, in
bloom. Black flies troublesome.
  First Black thr. Green [Black-throated Green Warbler] & Nashville
Warblers, one of each, former singing
in run, latter in trees near house,
at 2 P.M. Robins in normal
summer numbers. 2 Flickers
shouting. Pair of Song Sparrows
sitting in front of house. 2 Chippies [Chipping Sparrow]
singing. One Yellow rump [Yellow-rumped Warbler]. 2
Goldfinches in winter pl. [winter plumage] in
apple tree feeding busily among
it opening fruit buds.
  Brown came this morning to do
a lot of transplanting but I did
not feel quite up to it so sent
him home. Nevertheless I was out
of doors about Farm & in run
much of day. James bought 14
hens & a rooster R.I. reds [Rhode Island Red chicken]. They laid 8 eggs

Concord
Ther [Thermometer] Thursday, May 1, 1919 Wea [Weather]
34 [degrees], 64 [degrees]
Early morning clear & cool, everything
white with hoar frost. Most of
forenoon sunny; afternoon cloudy
& warm with fresh southerly wind.
  Delightful bird music; through
much of forenoon, contributed mostly
by Robins, Song Sparrows, Chippies [Chipping Sparrow],
Purple Finch, Tree Swallows, a Flicker,
Nashville [Nashville Warbler] & Yellow rump [Yellow-rumped Warbler].
A pair of silent Bluebirds at box
over carriage shed. The [female] entering it
Tree Swallows taking feathers into box
on hen house. Flicker pecking
inside hole in big apple tree near
peach orchard. Brood of 4 young
Squirrels romping delightfully in &
about hole in apple tree by lane.
  John Brown left a man here
this morning to work all day. He
himself came for afternoon. I
was with them most of time (6 hours
in all. Got very tired but nothing
worse. Gilbert [Robert A. Gilbert] went to Cambridge
& brought back 36 chickens fr. [from] Percy.