Concord (Farm)
Ther [Thermometer] Monday, May 15, 1916  Wea [Weather] Dull.
Screech Owl in barn
  Cloudy with light cool easterly
wind & more or less fine, misty
rain. It rained more heavily last night.
  First noted: Eave Swallow, 1 flying high
uttering curk-in - both notes. Screech Owl,
gray bird perched in heart-shaped aperture cut
under gable end of our old barn, looking out
through almost closed eyes. Thus it sat bolt
upright for several minutes at 9 A.M., a
Robin clamoring at it fr. [from] nearby elm. Shortly
after this it had disappeared.
  Birds singing freely all day. White-crowned
Sparrow treating me to many a sweet
plaintive serenade in lane & Forsythia thicket.
Thrasher flooding Ritchie place & Cedar Park
with its glorious music. Grosbeak singing
superbly near house. Bobolink in Lawrence
fields. 2 Vesper Sparrows, Howe's pastures
several Usnea & Nashville Warblers in
blossoming apple trees. Bittern pumping coming
at evening from direction Birch Island.
  Then long walks in Farm woods & fields
with Timmy. He flushed Pheasants & Partridges.
I creosoted Tent Caterpillars nests of which
rather many have appeared of late in a 
few places.

Concord (Farm)
Ther [Thermometer] Tuesday, May 16, 1916  Wea [Weather]
Stormy
  Dark cloudy with chill N.E. [northeast] wind and
incessant fine, mist-like rain loading every leaf
& grass blade with shining drops of moisture.
Vegetation at a stand-still & curiously retarded
as well as advanced. Thus all cherry trees,
many peach trees & a few plum trees are
still in full bloom together with some
apple trees - a very unusual condition.
Shad blooms passing. Tulips still holding out.
  First noted: Wilson's Black-cap [Wilson's Black-cap Warbler] [male] [in full song] in 
Berry Pasture; [?] bird seen in front 
of our house & Black-poll Warbler [male] [in full song] heard
in Fairyland, by Dexter.
  Handsome White-crown Sparrow [White-crowned Sparrow] spent day
in Forsythia thicket, front of house, singing
freely only in early morn [morning]. Few other birds
sang much & not many were to be seen.
The Screech Owl again looking out of heart shaped
hole of barn at 10 A.M. & not visable [visible] ten
minutes later, nor could we find him inside.
  Spent much of day indoors, writing.
Creosoted tent caterpillars also & had 3 walks
with Timmy. Dexter came to dine & walked
with me in woods later.