Concord (Farm, Carlisle etc.)
Ther [Thermometer] Sunday, May 10, 1914 Wea [Weather]
Perfect
Clear & warm with light W. [west] wind.
  No new arrivals nor any obviously
north-bound migrants noted.
  Starting at 9 A.M. Gilbert [Robert A. Gilbert] motored
me first to Duren's where we
spent half an hour strolling over
his farm & thence to George White's
where I stayed rather longer &
had a delightful talk with Lucy
& Marjorie. We ran the car at the
rate of 10 m. [miles] an hour most of the
way & I could hear the birds along
the road very distinctly. Noted in
all about 6 Robins, 6 Bluebirds, 3
Orioles, 2 Bobolinks, 8 Least Flycatchers
3 Meadow Larks & 6 or 8 Vesper 
Sparrows & at least 20 Chippies [Chipping Sparrows].
The scarcity of Robins very marked.
Home by 11.30. Walk to Ritchie
place. Wrote letters & had a nap in
P.M. Called on the Howes at 6
seeing Mr. & Mrs. & Miss Florence.

Concord (Farm & Ball's Hill)
Irish Terrier "Tim" received at Farm.
Ther [Thermometer] Monday, May 11, 1914 Wea [Weather]
First apple blossoms Fine
Clear & warm with light S.W. [southwest] to W. [west] wind.
  First White-crowned Sparrow 1 ad. [adult] in road
front of farm house all day, picking at horse 
manure in company with 10 White throats [White throated Sparrows].
They sang freely but the White-crown was
silent - a handsome, tame bird.
Wilson's Thrush 1 calling at daybreak in
Berry Pas. [Berry Pasture]; another at 4 P.M. in Pine Park sev. [several]
Yellow-wing Sp. [Yellow-winged Sparrows] [male] [in full song] 4 P.M. Howe's pasture
by roadside just E. [east] of Ritchie place.
Savanna Sparrow 1 flushed in grass field
near apple cellar, Ritchie place.
Prairie Warbler sev. [several] Walden woods - Dexter.
Shad bush & Cassandra in full bloom. 
First apple blossoms open - only a few.
  Spent forenoon spraying about the
farm with Burbank working pump.
  Dexter came down to dinner. After
it we both slept for an hour & then
walked to Ball's Hill via Birch Field
& back via road to school house.
Eddie Flannery hauled 2 red pines to Cd. [Concord].
[margin]Irish Terrier "Tim", 8 mos. [months] old, brought me by Gilbert from Geo White's on trial[/margin]