Concord (Farm & Sleepy Hollow)
Ther [Thermometer] Thursday, May 11, 1916 Wea [Weather]
Fine
  Cloudless with westerly wind blowing
half a gale. Very warm. Vegetation
advancing fast. Shad bush in nearly
full bloom. Fields thickly spangled with
golden Dandelions. Apple trees pink with
first buds & a few of these opening. 
Cherry & plum trees in fullest bloom.
Grass tall in places & lawn mowers
already busy.
  First noted: Redstart [male] [in full song], Sleepy Hollow.
Increased number of Chestnut-sided Warblers
& Oven-birds [Ovenbirds]. Most birds singing freely
all day long. Indigo bird [Indigo bunting] in full song.
  In Concord at 9 A.M. meeting, by app't [appointment]
Mrs. Melvin there. She brought with her 
two Misses Whitcomb. 50 hemlocks which I had
ordered from Shady Hill had arrived & we
left William planting them, motoring back to 
Farm where I took the ladies to Birch Field.
Spent P.M. planting & weeding flower beds.
Mr. & Mrs. E.W. Emerson called at 5 P.M.
staying half an hour. Tiny Tim [Timmy, Brewster's dog] very ill
last night & rather forlorn to-day.

Concord (Farm)
Ther [Thermometer] Friday, May 12, 1916  Wea [Weather]
Fine
  Clear and cool with fresh N.W. [northwest] wind.
It blew almost a full gale thro. [through] last night.
Vegetation at a stand-still again.
  First noted: Magnolia Warbler heard giving
the Finch-like call note in Cedar Park.
Warbling Vireo [male] [in full song] singing & uttering the
nasal scolding notes, in trees overhang [overhanging] road
near our house.
  No obvious increase in local summer birds.
They sang a little but not freely except in
early evening.
  Tree Swallows copulating on or near their
nest boxes at least three & I think four
are now occupied. The [male] of a pair in a
box near my chamber window utters the 
odd daybreak song there every morning as
soon as it is light.
  I see only one pair of [Cowbirds?] about
the place and no more than a single Oriole.
  Spent entire day out of doors. Worked in
flower garden in A.M. and planted hemlocks
dug yesterday & Irises received from [Jackson?], in
P.M.