Concord (Farm)
Ther [Thermometer] Friday, Mar. 27, 1914 [March 27, 1914] Wea [Weather]
72 [degrees] Great inrush spring birds. Fair
Sun shining feebly - or not at all
through thin clouds. Light & fickle
S [south] to W. [west] winds. Very warm all day.
First Phoebees [Phoebes], Cow-birds, Rusty B. [Rusty Blackbirds], 
2 Starlings & 3 Red-wings [Red-winged Blackbirds]. Floods of Robins,
Bluebirds & Song Sparrows. First
Antiopa Butterfly. Frost coming out
fast & mud ankle deep everywhere.
When I stepped out our front door
at 7 A.M. I heard Song Sparrows
singing far & near in every direction.
A moment later 5 Robins flew past &
shortly afterwards a flock of 15 [in a flock] alighted
in an elm. All the while a Phoebee [Phoebe]
was singing in our door yard. Finally
a Robin sang long & gloriously. Then
30 [in a flock] Robins trooped past & Chickadee &
Nuthatch sang. Then I heard & saw 
Cow-birds & heard a Rusty. Later still
saw 3 [in a flock] Red-wings & 2 [in a flock] Starlings on
wing. Red-shouldered Hawks all day.
  Duren finished spraying. I was with 
him all A.M. about Farm & in
Birch Field burning brush with my
own 3 men in P.M.

Concord (Farm)
Ther [Thermometer] Saturday, Mar. 28, 1914 [March 28, 1914] Wea [Weather]
Stormy.
Cold north-east storm with
rain falling thick & fast all
forenoon & snow all afternoon.
The snow melted as fast as it
struck, however, scarce whitening
the ground or trees.
  Two Juncos & a Song Sparrow,
feeding on seed in the flower
bed in front of house, were all
the birds I noted while looking
out of window at intervals through
day all of which I spent indoors.
  In forenoon Gilbert [Robert A. Gilbert] & I made
a general re-arrangement of
pictures & other things in
the back hall. In afternoon
I wrote letters & cheques.
There was little to tempt one 
out for it would be difficult
to imagine a chillier or
drearier day.