Concord - Weston - Wellesley
Ther [Thermometer] Monday, May 18, 1914 Wea [Weather]
Apple trees in fullest bloom. Fine
Clear & very warm with light
southerly breeze & intervals of dead calm.
  First Red-eyed Vireo [male] - Farm oaks.
[First] Cedar birds, 2 in orchard.
A very large & handsome White-crowned 
Sparrow with much white striping on
back spent forenoon in or near our
hen yard. It was silent & shy or at
least very timid. Evidently not the 
bird here last week. Heard Black &
Yellow Warbler singing in run. Marked
influx of Catbirds & Chestnut-sided
Warblers. Lots of Orioles & Bobolinks
along roadsides Cd. [Concord] Lincoln & Weston. 
No Robin between Concord & Wellesley.
  Spent forenoon working in garden
with Burbank & George. Mr. & Mrs.
Robbins (of Onset) called. I showed
them White cr. Sp. [White-crowned Sparrow] & Pheasant on nest.
Mrs. R. touched the Pheasant's tail.
  In P.M. (1.10-4.10) Gilbert & I
motored to Wellesley via Lincoln &
Weston to see "Sun". He has grown
very large & handsome. He knew me
at once. Roads very pretty but
rough. Apple trees in fullest bloom
everywhere. Entrancing at Farm.

Concord (Farm & Ball's Hill)
Catbird mimics Whippoorwill.
Ther [Thermometer] Tuesday, May 19, 1914 Wea [Weather]
Fox barking, 9 P.M. Fine.
Cloudless but densely smoky, the
sun looking like a red ball & giving
little direct heat. Calm & warm.
  First Redstart, Indigo bird, Swainson's
Thrush, & Black bill Cuckoo [Black-billed Cuckoo] at Farm
& Water Thrush at Ball's Hill.
First Tennessee [Tennessee Warbler] (1[in full song]) & Black-poll Warblers (4 [in full song])
at Concord village (seen by Dexter).
Not many migrants at Farm
& fewer still at Ball's Hill but
Dexter reports a good many in
Pritchard's woods at Cd. [Concord] early this morn.
Our apple trees still in full
bloom but unvisited by Warblers.
Local Birds singing freely all forenoon.
  The place seemed swarming
with them. Rarely if ever have
I enjoyed a fuller or more
delightful chorus of such music.
Bobolinks, Orioles & Catbirds at
their best. Our Catbird mimiced [mimicked]
a Whippoorwill very perfectly keeping it
up for half a minute & using no other
notes.
  Spent forenoon garden working. 
Dexter came to dinner & we went 
to Ball's Hill after it.
[margin]at 4 P.M. Jim M. 
came & motored me to Cemetery.
Fox barking in Run at 9 P.M. for about 5 minutes[/margin]