Concord (Farm)
Ther [Thermometer] Friday, April 21, 1916 Wea [Weather] Dull
Weasel
Dark cloudy with a little fine
rain in morning. Light easterly breeze.
Rather cool.
  Not many birds nor much bird
music save from Bluebirds in
early morning, Juncos through day,
Robins at evening. A Carolina Dove
cooing at short, regular intervals
about 9 A.M. in Prescott pine woods.
Pine Warbler & Ruby- crown Kinglet [Ruby-crowned Kinglet]
singing in forenoon near Pulpit Rock.
In that same neighborhood a Weasel
was seen, running along an old wall,
by George. He says it was almost a
foot in length, largely white in color
and very fearless, glaring at him
threateningly, he thought.
  Spent entire day in Pulpit Rock
woods with three men. George & Zeph
cleared up the last of the brush &
[downed?] timber, Burbank helped me to
transplant a lot of young cedars & a
few laurels & hemlock & grand juniper

Concord (Farm)
Ther [Thermometer] Saturday, April 22, 1916 Wea [Weather]
Stormy
Forenoon cloudy with strong, chill,
N.E. [northeast] wind. Raining heavily all afternoon.
Altogether a rather depressing
and uncomfortable day out of doors.
  Comparatively few birds & these
mostly silent save a Field Sparrow,
(evidently not the selfsame heard on 17th)
who sang wondrously in early morning
in orchard near barn, & two Flickers,
who shouted persistently most of forenoon.
Saw a pair of Purple Finches in
orchard & heard a Yellow Palm
Warbler chirping there.
  The Robins are again building in our
wood shed beginning, as they did last
year, the futile attempt to make dry
grass remain on a wind-swept 
step ladder. The [male] looks like our 1915
one but the [female] is very dull & light
colored & evidently not the same.
  Spent forenoon with Burbank 
hauling in nursery stock, just arrived,
& grafting apple trees. Wrote letters 
& read in afternoon. Gilbert [Robert Alexander Gilbert] motored
to Cambridge & took Emmy [Emmy Kettell] to Forest Hills.