Concord (Farm & Ball's Hill)
Ther [Thermometer] Wednesday, May 6, 1914 Wea [Weather]
Fairy Shrimps (Branchippus) Fair
Forenoon cloudy, chill E. [east] wind. Afternoon
sunny & very warm, light variable winds.
 First Nashville W. [Nashville Warbler] & Magnolia W. [Magnolia Warbler] (Ball's H [Ball's Hill])
[First] Red-eyed Vireo [in full song], Towhee [in full song] &
[First] Crested Flycatcher & King Bird (Farm)
[First] Oriole [in full song] Boblink [Bobolink] [in full song] (Flints' Bridge,
Concord, S.O. Dexter). Night Heron
& Cooper's Hawk, (Ball's Hill)
No great number of birds of any one
kind about. Not much singing.
Phoebee [Phoebe] nest in cellar at F [Farm] finished.
  Spent forenoon in barn superintending
the stacking of a lot of lumber. George
creosoting tent caterpillar nests.
Dexter came down at noon.
Starting immediately after dinner
we went to Ball's Hill. In larches
behind it saw Magnolia, Chestnut side [Chestnut-sided Warbler]
Black-thr. Green Warbler [Black-throated Green Warbler], Nashville W. [Nashville Warbler] Ruby
crown [Ruby-crowned Kinglet], Cooper's Hawk, Night Heron.
Found numbers of Fairy Shrimps in Button
Bush Pond by big oak front of Pine Hill.
Saw Chipmunk east end of hill first
one this spring. Home by 5. Heavenly evening.
Concord (Farm & Ball's Hill)
Ther [Thermometer] Thursday, May 7, 1914  Wea [Weather]
First Bats (3) in shed loft. Fair
Partly cloudy, partly sunny. Warm
with light, soft S.W. [southwest] wind.
  First Rose-br. Grosbeak [Rose-breasted Grosbeak], Farm oaks, 7 A.M. Whippoorwill 10 P.M.
Flood of White-throat Sparrows [White-throated Sparrows] 40+ at
Farm (many in road) & 20+ at Ball's Hill.
No obvious increase of other birds.
Spent most of day at Farm
supervising farm work. Ed. Flannery
came down with one man to dig
five of my red pines for Sted Buttrick
He is a most intelligent man & he
showed so much interest & appreciation
respecting my tree plantings that I 
first took him all over the Farm
& then drove with him to Ball's Hill
where we wandered about for an
hour or more looking at larches,
spruces, pines etc. planted many 
years ago. This was in forenoon.
The tulips & hyacinths about at their
best now. Some of the cherry trees &
all the plum trees in bloom to-day.
Second letter from C. [Caroline Brewster] dated Oxford.