Concord (Farm)
Black-poll Warblers still here
Hermit Thrush
Ther [Thermometer] Friday, June 2, 1916 Wea [Weather] Perfect.
Barberries in bloom.
  Cloudless & almost windless save in
P.M. when a light S.E. to S.W. [southeast to southwest] breeze blew
fitfully. Deliciously warm. Barberries
in full bloom, their golden blossoms
attracting myriads of droning Bees.
  North-bound migrants. 2 Black-poll
Warblers [Blackpoll Warblers] singing, one near house, the
other in Pulpit Rock woods. Hermit Thrush
in full song on ridge just south of the
Rock at 10 A.M. & again at 7 P.M.
[Summer?] birds in goodly numbers & full
song all day. Of those settled near
our house, I miss only one, the Redstart,
since spraying began. The Tanager, too, is
apparently gone from the tall oaks
at foot of lane. The Crows & Jays
seemed to have ceased their morning raids
through orchard trees near house.
  Spent most of forenoon in Pulpit Rock
woods where Zeph was cutting small
deciduous trees among the pines. Went
there again in P.M. with Burbank
to spray shrubbery along paths.

Concord (Farm)
Ther [Thermometer] Saturday, June 3, 1916 Wea [Weather]
Mixed.
Early morning sunny & calm. Remainder of
day cloudy with fresh S.W. [southwest] wind that brought
heavy rain at evening.
  Irises fast nearing maximum of bloom
and already making brilliant show.
Ladies' slippers about at their best and very
abundant in our woods. In one place, under
young pines they form a solid bed, growing
as thickly as lilies of the valley and there
covering fully 200 square feet of ground.
Never before have I seen them thus massed.
  No north-bound migrants noted. Local
birds not much in evidence save in
early morning when they sang well
as long as the sunshine lasted.
  Took Zeph [Zephaniah Prosser] & the Monson men (3) into
woods south of run this morning & spent
day with them there digging out stones,
carting them & earth to fill hollows &
otherwise smoothing the rougher places
along the wood road heading from Ritchie 
place to the Barrett Spring.