Concord (Farm & Ball's Hill)
Ther [Thermometer] Saturday, May 2, 1914 Wea [Weather]
34 [degrees] Fine
Brilliantly clear with fresh N.W. [northwest]
wind. Warmer than yesterday.
  First Black throated Green Warbler
([male] [in full song] elms at Farm, [male] [in full song] near Pulpit Rock.
Slight increase numbers of Yellow-rumps [Yellow-rumped Warbler]
No other signs of arriving migrants.
  Spent day at Ball's Hill, walking
down at 8 A.M. & back at 5 P.M.
  Flooded meadows very beautiful
but lifeless save for a pair of
Kingfishers. Sheltered from the
keen wind by the hill were a 
number of small birds drifting
back & forth past cabins. There 
were 2 Mniotiltas, 4 Yellow rumps [Yellow-rumped Warbler],
a Yellow Palm [Yellow Palm Warbler], a Ruby crown [Ruby-crowned Kinglet] &
2 Juncos besides Song Sparrows &
a pair of Robins. Both Phoebees [Phoebes]
there, the [female] beginning a nest in the
boat shed on a beam. Pine Warbler
singing on crest of hill. 2 Hermits [Hermit Thrush]
in Birch Field, 1 in Prescott pines.
Many early butterflies.

Concord (Farm & Buttrick place
Ther [Thermometer] Sunday, May 3, 1914 Wea [Weather]
Fine
Clear, calm, warm; a perfect
May day.
  No new arrivals noted. Birds
singing freely in early morning.
Pair of silent Phoebees [Phoebes] in door yard.
Only 5 Tree Swallows about boxes.
2 Hermits [Hermit Thrush] foot of lane, 1 Birch Field.
2 [male] Ruby crowns [Ruby-crowned Kinglet] [in full song], 15 Juncos & 2
White-throats [White-throated Sparrow] in hen yard. Partridge
drumming in run. Malteese [Maltese] & white cat
started twice from Forsythia thicket
front of house. I fear she has 
got our Thrasher. Gray Squirrels going
fast. Saw only 3 to-day.
  Walked to Birch Field just after
breakfast. Wrote letters 10-12.30.
Motored to Concord at 1 & dined
at Sted Buttrick's. He & Mr. Wheeler
a landscape architect came to the
Farm soon after my return & I
took them all over it showing
them red pines & other trees.