Concord (Farm & Village)
Ther [Thermometer] Friday, May 8, 1914 Wea [Weather]
Dull.
Cloudy with chill N.E. [northeast] wind &
heavy rain at & after night fall.
  First Yellow thr. Vireo [Yellow-throated Vireo] ([male] [in full song] ) & Black-
burnian Warbler ([male] [in full song]) at Farm.
Also first Oriole [in full song] for this locality.
  Heard & saw the Oriole & Vireo in elms
in dooryard, 7 A.M. Started for
a ramble in woods 8 A.M. but got
no further than Pulpit Rock when
Gilbert [Robert A. Gilbert] called me back. Woods 
flooded with Ovenbirds singing
incessantly. Many Mniotiltas also.
Melvin at house awaiting my return.
He took me to Sleepy Hollow Cemetery
to advise him about planting laurels
etc. there. Saw Oriole & Yellow
Warblers along the road. Back
by 9.30. Eddie Flannery & 2 men
carting red pines to Sted Buttricks'.
They took two. I worked tying up
grape vines in A.M. In P.M.
creosoted caterpillar nests.

Concord (Farm & Village & W. Bed [West Bedford)
Ther [Thermometer] Saturday, May 9, 1914 Wea [Weather]
Fair
  Mostly sunny. Light, variable winds.
Very warm & rather sultry.
  First Golden-wing Warbler [Golden-winged Warbler] [male] [in full song] (Berry Pas. [Berry Pasture]
9 A.M. not seen) Whippoorwill, 10 P.M.
Small flight (4 [males] [in full song]) Nashville Warblers
One Magnolia [Magnolia Warbler] & one Yellow-rump [Yellow-rumped Warbler]. No
other obvious migrants passing. Only
2 Orioles & no Bobolinks. Field Sparrow
singing in Berry Pasture. No Thrashers.
Not much bird song through day.
Hermit Thrush in full song 4.30-5 P.M.
in Birch Field. No doubt one of the
two birds there for past 2 weeks. He 
is only a second or third rate performer.
Robins scarce & Chickadees very scarce.
Marked increase of Jays last three days.
  Began spraying for tent caterpillars
8.30 A.M. Called off at 9 by telephone
E.W. Emerson who came down an hour
later on horseback with little Edith.
I showed them Pheasant on nest etc.
The Melvins came at 10.30. At 11
I went with them to Bedford Nursery
& Sleepy Hollow. Sprayed Ritchie place
in P.M. Walked to Birch F. [Birch Field] later