Concord (Farm)
Ther [Thermometer] Sunday, April 23, 1916 Wea [Weather] Stormy
Fox barking at 6 P.M.
Dark cloudy with strong, keen N.E. [northeast]
wind and cealess [ceaseless] rain, very heavy
at times. Brooks swollen, swamps
flooded & pools of water standing
in many cultivated & grass fields.
Thus far we have had an exceptionally
wet as well as cool spring.
Yet vegetation is advancing. Our
gooseberry bushes are now in half
leaf & lilac buds are bursting open
  Hardly any birds in sight or
hearing. The only species singing
were Robin, Flicker, Meadow Lark [Meadowlark]
& Red-wing [Red-winged Blackbird]. Upwards of a dozen
Juncos in the orchard. A Barn
Swallow flying over it. Started 2
Partridge in Berry Pasture, one in
Birch Field.
  Spent most of day in house
writing letters but Timmy & I had
a rather long walk in forenoon &
another in afternoon. Heard a Fox bark
twice at 6 P.M., near at hand in Birch Field.

Concord (Farm)
Ther [Thermometer] Monday, April 24, 1916 Wea [Weather] Stormy
Robin building on step ladder
  Dark cloudy with incessant fine,
misty rain driving before strong &
intensely chilly north-east wind.
  Few birds seen and fewer still heard.
Robins sang a little at dawn, Vesper
Sparrows & Juncos later in morning.
A Partridge drumming in the run just
after dinner. A Pheasant crowed twice
at evening. No sound whatever from
Wood Frogs or Hylas. Altogether a
very dreary day with little of interest
to be noted in fields or woods. I 
spent it mostly in the house
rearranging pictures & other things &
writing letters. Burbank completed
a new window for our dining room
facing south. It has a single big
pane of clear plate glass.
  The Robin worked at intervals at
the futile task of bringing dry grass into
the shed & distributing it about evenly on
four steps of the step ladder there. We
finally put up a shelf for her & hung
up the step ladder.