Concord (Farm & Ball's Hill)
Ther [Thermometer] Wednesday, May 20, 1914 Wea [Weather]
80 [degrees] Fine
Calm, warm & cloudless but so
densely smoky that one could not
see anything distinctly save near at
hand. Sun showed as a red ball
casting no shadows.
Spent most of day at Ball's Hill
spraying the oaks on Bensen's Knoll
& thence along road as far as wood
shed. Zeph & George working with 
one of Duren's men & his old
hand pump. I dined at cabin
& walked back to Farm about
3 P.M.
First Canadian Warblers, 2 [males in full song], B.H [Ball's Hill]
[First] Yellow bill Cuckoo [Yellow-billed Cuckoo] 1 [in full song] near Bensen's
Usnea Warbler scattered about
commonly singing. 2 Magnolia
Warblers [in full song]. [Female] Black-poll & [female] Usnea
in blossoming apple tree at Farm.
The apple bloom at its very fullest
this evening when I spent a long
time in our orchard admiring its
exceeding beauty. Lilacs coming
into bloom to-day.
[margin]Deafening chorus of Hylas last evening & this. Tree Toads both evenings. 1 Bull Frog to-day.[/margin]
Concord (Farm)
Ther [Thermometer] Thursday, May 21, 1914 Wea [Weather]
Fine
Calm with dense smoky haze obscuring
the sun. East wind in P.M. cooling the air.
  First Cape May Warbler, [female], in big Baldwin
apple tree (in fullest bloom) behind house, 11
A.M. Rather dull-colored bird, dully streaked,
& showing little yellow beneath. Tame &
sluggish. As I was watching her a
Chebec darted at her and clinching
with her fluttered down with her to the
earth under tree (ploughed ground) where
the two remained struggling for several
seconds after which the Warbler escaped
into lilac hedge & sat there only a foot 
above ground for several minutes. At
length she flew thence to oak by roadside
& began flitting about & feeding.
  Heard a Black poll sing & saw a Peabody
bird. Several Usnea Warblers about.
Men spraying in Birch Field (big oaks)
all day. I sprayed with them 8-9 A.M.
Sprayed in Berry Pas. [Berry Pasture] with Burbank
after dinner. Also planted flower seeds.
Mr. & Mrs. Robbins, Walter Faxon & Prof.
Norton called at 5 P.M. We walked about 
[margin]Farm & Richie place for about an hour.[/margin]