Concord
Ther [Thermometer] Friday, May 2, 1919 Wea [Weather]
74 [degrees] Mixed
Heavy rain last night. Cloudy
foggy, windless morning. Sun
out by 11 & shining steadily later.
Afternoon of summer like warmth
with fast unfloding [unfolding] leaves
& blossoms. Some cherry trees
bowers of white & many peach
trees mounds of rose, ere
nightfall.
  First Brown Thrasher singing
gloriously in elms over lane, 9 A.M.,
afterwards running Robin-like on lawn.
Hermit Thrush (thin-voiced one)
singing near Pulpit Rock at 9 A.M.,
in run near red pines, 10 A.M.
Very little change in local bird
life for past three day [days]. There
should be a rush of migrants
by to-morrow, however.
  Walked to Ritchie Place 9-10
A.M. James & George killed &
buried our Jersey cow in Birch Field.
We all worked on chicken yard
in P.M. when Dexter called.

Concord
Ther [Thermometer] Saturday, May 3, 1919 Wea [Weather]
72 [degrees] Fine
Brilliantly clear with strong westerly
wind. Cool at morn & eve [evening], warm
thro [through] day. Vegetation advancing fast.
Shad bush in bloom at sunset.
  First Chimney Swift, heard at
evening, apparently afar off eastward.
This the only arrival noted. Local
birds same as for week past.
They sang entrancingly all forenoon.
Of lingering north-bound migrants 
I saw a Junco in millet patch, a
Yellow-rump & Yellow Palm Warbler
together in apple orchard & heard
a Peabody bird sing.
  Spent most of day out-of-doors
near house superintending work of
James & George. First they finished
chicken yard in cherry orchard.
Afterwards James worked in
vegetable garden, George in my
flower beds. I am ever so much 
better & stronger now than when
we came here a week ago.