Concord (Farm)
Ther [Thermometer] Tuesday, April 28, 1914 Wea [Weather]
Fair.
Mostly cloudy with some sunlight.
Warm with light southerly wind.
  First Eave Swallow (hd. [heard] 5 P.M.).
Bank Swallow (hd. [heard] 2 P.M.), Kingfisher
(hd. [heard] from door yard) Marsh Hawk ([female])
Gen. ar. [General arrival] Chippies [Chipping Sparrows] Juncos (30) &
Fox Sparrow (1) still lingering. 9
Tree Swallows about boxes.
Many birds singing freely through day.
- House Wren, Robins, Song Sparrows,
Chippies [Chipping Sparrows], Pine Warbler, Flickers,
Meadow Larks (2 in Lawrence's fields)
Vesper Sparrows. Marked increase
in numbers of Robins. 6 squabbling 
together in orchard. Yellow Redpoll
there. Partridge drumming in run.
3 Pheasants crowing in Ritchie pl. [Ritchie place]
2 Red shoul. Hawks [Red-shouldered Hawks] screaming near H.H. [Holden's Hill]
  Spent day transplanting fruit 
trees, grape vines etc. with help
of Burbank & Zeph. Former has
had 60 Chickens hatch thus far.
First tulips in bloom. Benzoin blooms.

Concord (Farm & Ball's Hill)
Ther [Thermometer] Wednesday, April 29, 1914 Wea [Weather]
Dull.
Cloudy with chill N.E. [northeast] wind and
frequent light showers.
  First Brown Thrasher singing fitfully,
a few notes at a time, in Forsythia
bushes front of house, 7-9 A.M.
Many birds singing rather freely about
house at this time & earlier but few
heard later until mid-afternoon
when I went to Ball's Hill.
  Spent forenoon at Farm transplanting
things from old flower garden to
new beds front of house. George
raking up leaves, dead stalks & other
rubbish. Burbank spading.
  Started for Ball's Hill at 1.15.
Took a little can of creosote & painted
innumerable tent caterpillar nests along
the way. 2 Hermits [Hermit Thrush] near spring. Ruby
crown [Ruby-crowned Kinglet] in full song on Pine Hill. Robin
singing gloriously in Davis Swamp. Red
maples in full blossom there. Hepaticas &
Claytonia making fine show near cabins.
River over meadows. Few Swallows, no
Red-wings [Red-winged Blackbirds]. Home by 5, dog tired.