Concord (Farm)
Ther [Thermometer] Thursday, April 27, 1916 Wea [Weather]
Fair
  Thin cloudy with occasional brief
gleams of pale sunlight. Cool. Light 
N.E. [northeast] wind.
  7 Tree Swallows about boxes and 50+
Juncos in orchard, the former [?],
the latter trilling, sweetly & ceaselessly.
Purple Finch in full song near house &
Ruby-crown [Ruby-crowned Kinglets] in Cedar Park, both with
voices of rarely full & perfect quality.
Song of Meadow Lark [Meadowlark], Vesper & Song
Sparrows coming from somewhat further
off, as did also the voice of a Field Sparrow.
Robins sang early at evening & [?]
but little. They seem much scarcer now
than they were a week or more ago.
I see only one pair near the house.
The Phoebees [Phoebes] are still frequenting our
barn cellar but the [male] sings not at all.
Heard 2 Night Herons, evidently on wing
& not far from Pulpit Rock, at 7.30 P. M.
  Spent forenoon with Burbank & George
setting out raspberry & blackberry plants.
Supervised digging holes for large paper
birches from Horsford, in P. M. 

Concord (Farm)
Minks' track. Dead muskrat in brook.
Ther [Thermometer] Friday, April 28, 1916  Wea [Weather] Stormy
  Heavy snow-storm
  Snowing quite ceaselessly & for most part
very heavily from sometime last night to 
4 P. M. to-day. The big, wet flakes, coming
thick & fast, clung to every tree branch
& tree trunk loading the evergreen
foliage & bending the gray birches in
bows inching earthward. Never have
I seen the woods more wondrously
beautiful than they were at  8 A.M.
when Timmy & I went to Birch Field
& Prescott pines. The depth of the snow on
the ground was then 4 inches. It had
increased to 6" [6 inches] by 3 P. M. & shrunk to
2 " [2 inches] by nightfall when Timmy & I
had another walk - through Berry Pasture
where I found a freshly dead Muskrat
in the brook. It bore no obvious mark of
injury but near it was fresh tracks of
either a Mink or a large Weasel, the former
I thought. The storm banished practically
all the birds. During entire day I saw
or heard only 2 Robins, one Song Sparrow,
one Junco, 2 Crows, a Partridge & Pheasants.
The Song Sparrows [?] & that of a Meadow
Lark (calling) were the only bird voices
save that of pheasants, who crowed freely
for first time this spring.
  Spent most of day in house writing
letters & cheques for bills.