Concord (Farm)
Ther [Thermometer] Friday, May 5, 1916  Wea [Weather]
Fair
Forenoon cloudy, afternoon sunny but
hazy. Cool, with light easterly wind.
Many tulips in bloom. Yellow jonquils at
best. Squills passing. Crocuses gone by.
Garden Toads still trilling freely. Bluet 
Butterflies out. Only a very few Tent
Caterpillar nests.
  First noted: Cat-birds [Catbirds], singing at daybreak.
3 birds in front of house all day, 2 singing
sotto voce one mimicing Oriole perfectly, the
third collecting stems & carrying them about
in thicket. Yellow Warbler [male] [in full song], with another
that looked like a [female]. Maryland Yel.-thrt [Maryland Yellow-throat]
[male] [in full song] in Berry Pasture.
  3 Dendroica virens [in full song]. No obvious increase
of other recent arrivals. Belated Junco
[female] in orchard.
  Spent day near house working with 
the men. Set out fall-bearing strawberry
plants, grapevines etc. Harris finished
all his work to-day. Monson & 2 men
still at it.

Concord (Farm)
Migratory Bats arrive in Shed loft.
Ther [Thermometer] Saturday, May 6, 1916  Wea [Weather] Mixed
Rush of May migrants.
  Raining heavily at daybreak & up to 10 A.M. Sun
out by noon. Afternoon hot, sultry, windless.
  First noted: Chestnut-side W. [Chestnut-sided Warbler] [male] [in full song] near Barn;
Towhee [male] and [female] rear of barn; Bal.Oriole [Baltimore Oriole] [male] [in full song] in elms
[noted at Cd [Concord] by Dexter on 3rd] King bird [Kingbird], 2 near house;
Crested Flycatcher 1 [in full song], Farm orchard.
  Increased numbers of Oven birds [Ovenbirds], B&W Creepers [Black & White Creepers],
Bl.thr.Green Warblers [Black-throated Green Warblers], Nashville Warblers.
  First Bats in Shed loft - 3 in number.
  Spent most of day transplanting things
mostly biennial poppies. Burbank setting
out lettuce & tomato plants. None of the
other men came to work to-day.
  Timmy [Brewster's dog] & I had a good long walk in
woods & fields just after breakfast & another
at evening. There are almost no Brown-tails
nests this year & still few Tent Caterpillars. 
Of the latter I have thus far found less
than a dozen in all.
  The [female] Robin was beating against the pantry
window 6-7 A.M. We hung up a white sheet
inside the closed sash & she did not return.
3 Cat-birds front of house all day & two of
these males singing superbly. The third was
carrying wood stalks into bush & placing them
there as if for foundation of nest.

Many birds singing freely all day long. I enjoyed their delightful music keenly.