Concord (Farm) & Billerica
Ther [Thermometer] Sunday, June 4, 1916  Wea [Weather]
Superb.
It rained heavily through last night
but the sun was out by 9 A.M. &
the remainder of the day brilliantly
clear with light, cool N.W. [northwest] wind.
Despite these conditions the birds did
not sing freely or else there were
comparatively few about our place - I
am not sure which. I was out in
or near the bordering woods just
after breakfast & dinner & again at
evening when I heard a Hermit [hermit thrush] &
a Whippoorwill afar off to the W. [west]
& a Veery in our run. Robins
singing far & near late into twilight.
  Spent most of forenoon writing
letters. Miss Mary & Miss Hattie
Eaton came to dinner. After it we
strolled about the place & almost
to Pulpit Rock. They departed at 3.15.
At 3.45 I started for Billerica to
see [Dudley] Pitman's place. He showed
me lots of interesting captive birds,
Pheasants of several kinds, Mallards, Wood
Ducks & a pair of typ. [typical] tristis Black Ducks
that joined his Mallards a year ago.

Concord (Farm)
Ther [Thermometer] Monday, June 5, 1916  Wea [Weather] Various.
Abundant rains, lush vegetation.
  Forenoon partly sunny, mostly cloudy, with
strong S.W. [southwest] wind, which freshened to a gale at
2.30 P.M. after which came a light thunder
shower followed by a gentle rain continuing on
into the night. Vegetation of all kinds
flourishing wondrously under combined influence
of superabundant moisture & not infrequent
warm sunshine. A real old-fashioned spring,
much to be enjoyed & far more attractive in
every way than the rainless ones of the
prolongued [prolonged] series happily ended last year.
  First noted: Mourning Warbler unseen but
whose full song I heard thrice at 7.30 A.M.,
arriving apparently from the depths of the
Forsythia thicket in front of our house. No
other north-bound migrants noted.
Heard again not far from house a Tanager &
a Yellow-throated Vireo but the Redstart &
Wood Pewee seem to have finally departed.
2 Indigo Birds [Indigo Buntings] singing in orchard, 2 Nashvilles
[Nashville Warblers] & a Towhee in Birch Field.
  Spraying in Pulpit Rock woods all A.M.,
writing in house most of P.M.