Concord (Farm)
First Garden Toads  Blood root [bloodroot] in bloom.
Ther [Thermometer]  Saturday, April 29, 1916  Wea [Weather] Perfect
Transformation scene, winter-spring.
  Cloudless, windless, very warm.
Wintry landscape in early morn [morning]. Snow
covering everything to depth of 4" . Fields
partly bare by noon, wholly so by night
with the greenest of grass & many early
flowers about our homes. Much snow
still left in evergreen woods.
  I was awakened at sunrise by a 
pair of Tree Swallows calling musically
at a box near my window. They were
about all day but no others appeared.
It was interesting to see them & Butterflies
floating over the snow covered fields.
A Purple Finch, Vesper Sparrow, Chippy [Chipping Sparrow],
Meadow Lark [Meadowlark] & Song Sparrow, singing
freely in forenoon. Our Phoebee [Phoebe] sang a 
little. Bluebird heard calling only.
A [male] Broad wing [Broad-winged Hawk] passed thrice low over
me in orchard, one pursued by a Crow,
one calling Kill-du., its flight very
beautiful to behold being alike buoyant,
effortless & graceful as it alternately
flapped slowly & floated on its wings.
Out of doors about Farm all day.
[?] [?] storms in A.M. In P.M.
Burbank & I grafted apple trees.
A few Garden Toads trilling at evening when
there was a nearly full chorus of Hylas.
Blood root [bloodroot] in bloom.

Concord (Farm)
Ther [Thermometer]  Sunday, April 30, 1916  Wea [Weather] Perfect.
Robin fluttering against window.
  A heavenly day, comfortably warm, with
cloudless, tender blue sky & light easterly wind.
  First noted: Yellow-rump [male] [Yellow-rumped warbler [male] [in full song] ]; Black &
White Creeper, [male] [in full song]; Sparrow Hawk.
With Yellow-rump [Yellow-rumped Warbler] were Ruby Crown Kinglet [Ruby-crowned Kinglet]
& Yellow Palm Warbler, both in full song.
Saw 3 other Yellow Palms [Yellow Palm Warblers] widely scattered &
each alone. Field Sparrow, with fine, clear,
ringing song, in bushes front of house.
Sparrow Hawk flying high & swift S.E. [southeast]. 
Two or more Greater Yellow legs calling at 
3 P.M., apparently at [Howe's?] meadow (flooded)
  From 12.30 to 1 P.M. & again later
in afternoon, a [female] Robin, evidently the bird
that has been attempting to roost in our shed,
came to the back windows of lower room
of home & fluttered against them until
almost exhausted when she would retire to
the nearby apple tree & perch for a minute or 
two panting with half opened bill, before
flying again to the window. She never once hit
it very hard or remained at it more than
a few seconds. When driven away she soon
returned. In Sept. 1913 [September 1913] a young Indigo bird
did nearly the same thing at same two 
windows (old fashioned ones with small panel).

  Spent most of day rambling through Farm woods
with "Timmy" [Brewster's dog].