Concord (Farm)
Ther [Thermometer] Wednesday, April 22, 1914 Wea [Weather]
Fine
  Clear & warm with fresh W. [west] wind - 
Daffodills [Daffodils] in bloom.
  First House Wren [in full song] & Purple Finch,
both at Farm front of Bungalow - 
very little singing. Birds silenced
by high wind.
  Spent most of forenoon with
Burbank & Zeph working in the
lane which we raked thoroughly.
Began on a fence subdividing
poultry yard about 11 A.M.
While there heard a House Wren
sing eight or ten times apparently
in apple tree.
  Dexter came down to dinner.
After it we got to discussing
socialism, from opposite sides,
& kept it up until 4 when we
called on Miss Burbank together.
I left Dexter there & walked
to Birch Field & back by road to
Ritchie place & thence thro. Berry Pasture
Tent Caterpillars hatched & out.
Concord (Farm)
Ther [Thermometer] Thursday, April 23, 1914 Wea [Weather]
Fine
Brilliantly clear with keen & boisterous
N.W. [northwest] wind. Surface of ground
frozen stiff at sunrise. Warm only
in sheltered places through day.
  First solitary Vireo [in full song] at foot of lawn,
8 A.M.; Sharp-shin Hawk [Sharp-shinned Hawk] [female] Ritchie
place, 11 A.M., flying low over open
field came straight for three of us &
passed above us no higher than 50 ft.
Counted 38 Juncos feeding together on
seed bed, front of house. A Fox Sp. [Fox Sparrow]
& a Chippy [Chipping Sparrow] & 2 Song Sparrows with
them. Red-Shouldered Hawk in tree
by pond. Very little singing.
Tent Caterpillars on outside of egg
clusters in masses at 6 P.M. yesterday.
To-day at 4 P.M. I saw their webs
or tents showing conspicuously in same
trees (rum cherries in Berry Pasture)
  Spent entire day superintending
grafting apple trees by Hodgman, who
taught Burbank & Gilbert [Robert A. Gilbert] to do it well
in a few hours. We grafted wild
trees in Berry Pasture mostly.