Concord (Farm)
Ther [Thermometer] Wednesday, May 17, 1916  Wea [Weather] Stormy
Apple orchards in nearly full bloom.
  Raining ceaselessly & very heavily all
last night & through forenoon today
flooding swamps & overflowing brooks more
than has any previous storm this spring.
The brook at Barrett spring a rushing
torrent with many beautiful little cascades
when I visited it at 4 P.M. The
skies had then cleared & the sun was
shining brightly with fresh, cool N.W. [northwest] wind
blowing. Wind N.E. [northeast] through forenoon.
  Not much bird music until late P.M.
when Robins, Thrasher, Grosbeak & others
sang freely & well. Nothing new noted.
White-crown [White-crowned Sparrow] apparently gone. Could he
have migrated N. [North] during stormy last night?
  Screech Owl looking out barn at 10 &
again at 11 A.M. Robins protesting his
presence with loud clamor.
  Spent forenoon in shed rearranging
tool closet. Out with Timmy [Brewster's dog] in woods
to eastward 4 - 6 P.M. He started a
Rabbit, I creosoted caterpillar tents.
Many of them broken into by something &
full of mangled larvae. In several the
larvae were dead or dying, apparently
of the moth disease.

Apple orchards in nearly full bloom

Concord (Farm)
Ther [Thermometer] Thursday, May 18, 1916  Wea [Weather] Fine
Robin mimics Vireo flavifrons
Clear & cool with high N.W. [northwest] wind.
  Cherry trees & many apple trees in full
bloom. Plum trees & shad bush past.
  First noted: Scarlet Tanager [male], Birch Field
  Comparatively few birds seen. Not much
music from them until wind lulled in
late P.M. when Orioles, Grosbeaks, Robins
& Warblers of several kinds sang freely.
One of the Robins (near our house) regularly
interpolated among its other & normal notes
a perfect imitation of the second note
(two-syllabled) of the song of Vireo flavifrons.
This was rendered so accurately that for a 
time I was sure there was a Vireo in
the same tree. The [female] Robin was again
beating against pantry window (7 A.M.)
No flight of N. [North] bound migrants. Noted only
one, a D. [Dendroica] maculosa. Only one Tree Swallow
seen about the boxes.
  Spent most of day running lawn mower
& weeding flower beds. Timmy & I went
to Birch Field at 3 P.M. & through
Berry Pastures at 6 P.M.