Concord (Farm & Ball's Hill)
Ther [Thermometer] Tuesday, Mar. 31, 1914 [March 31, 1914] Wea [Weather]
First Hylas. Fine
Brilliantly clear with moderate
northerly winds. A perfect day.
  8 Fox Sparrows, [including partial
albino), 7 or 8 Juncos, 3 Song Sparrows
& 1 Tree Sparrow visited seed bed
front of house at frequent intervals
through day. For Sparrows [Fox Sparrows] singing
a little. Phoebee [Phoebe] back again
in full song after three days
absence. Robin singing well at
sunrise. Nuthatch at suet.
Red-wings [Red-winged Blackbirds] scattered about
singly over flooded river meadows
opposite & above Ball's Hill singing
delightfully for half an hour
before sunset. Flicker shouting there.
  Spent forenoon on Farm. Put up
ship bell at east end of house &
had Zeph cut some trees at Ritchie pl. [Ritchie place].
Dexter dined with me. We all
went to Ball's Hill in P.M. Apples
in cistern in good condition. River
in full flood again.
[margin]Heard 1 Hylas & 2 Wood Frogs near Ball's Hill. Dexter
heard Hylas at Concord on 27th.[/margin]

Concord (Farm)
Ther [Thermometer] Wednesday, April 1, 1914 Wea [Weather]
First tree Swallows Mixed.
Forenoon fair with rising S.E. [southeast] wind.
& increasing cloudiness. Raining by
3 P.M. & afterwards. Mild but chilly.
  It was dead calm with pale sunshine
when I first stepped out doors at 7 A.M.
The air was filled with delicious bird
music mostly of Bluebirds, Fox 
Sparrows, Song Sparrows & Juncos.
The Fox Sparrows sang gloriously & almost
ceaselessly all day long in the Forsythia
thicket in front of house, paying frequent
visits to the seed bed under our window
where we counted 20 of them at once.
With them came 10 Juncos, 2 Tree Sparrows
& 2 Song Sparrows. At 8 A.M. I heard
Tree Swallows & looking up saw 2
high in air whirling around & around
bill to bill apparently quarreling.
  Spent forenoon with Burbank
putting up bird boxes. In P.M.
we pruned peach & plum trees.
C. [Caroline Brewster] got back to Cambridge this P.M.
I talked with her by telephone & with
Dr. Gehring [Dr. John Gehring] at Hotel Touraine.
[margin]1 Hylas peeping at Farm 8 P.M.[/margin]