Concord (Farm)
Ther [Thermometer] Wednesday, June 14, 1916  Wea [Weather]
Fair
Mostly sunny but partly cloudy with light
E. [east] to S.E. [southeast] wind becoming N.E. [northeast] with dense
cloudiness after sunset. First rainless day
since the 8th. Warm at noon, cool at
morn [morning] & eve [evening].
  Birds singing freely at all hours.
Wood Pewee, 2 Blackburnian [Blackburnian Warblers] & 2 D. virens [Dendroica virens]
in Pulpit Rock woods; 2 [male] Wrens, Oriole,
Chippy [Chipping Sparrow], Indigo bird [Indigo Bunting], Chestnut side Warbler [Chestnut-sided Warbler],
2 Cat birds [Catbirds], a Grosbeak (hd. once at noon [heard once at noon])
singing close about house. Robins in
full chorus at evening. No alarms
among them today so the Owls have
probably departed. Jays still raiding
for eggs in our orchard & Berry Pasture
but only in early morning. Saw 5 together
on wing in Birch Field, 3 P.M.
  Duren came again this morning &
we sprayed all day, he & George doing the
big oaks at spring, I working with him
& using the hose freely on lesser trees
through forenoon. In P.M. Zeph [Zephaniah Prosser] & I used
the hand pump on shrubbery in Birch Field.
Millions of Gyps. [Gypsy Moths] there on birches etc.

Concord (Farm, Holden's Hill, Ball's Hill)
Ther [Thermometer] Thursday, June 15, 1916 Wea [Weather]
Dull.
Mostly cloudy with strong, chill N.E. [northeast] wind.
A few brief intervals of sunshine in forenoon.
  Zeph & I spent forenoon on Holden's 
Hill & Blakemore Ridge cutting 2 fine
canoe birches for their bark & a chestnut
from which to make bark bird houses.
All three trees peeled admirably & one 
of the birches so readily that the bark
almost dropped off as sawn or slit.
At Holden's Hill only three birds were
singing in the woods, a Red-eye [Red-eyed Vireo], a
Black-thr. Green Warbler [Black-throated green warbler] & an Ovenbird
but I heard a Bobolink in Howe's meadow
& 3 Maryland Yellow throats [Maryland Yellowthroats] along its edge.
River meadows deeply flooded with
white caps rolling over them & not a bird 
of any kind singing there. On Blakeman
Ridge at least 20 Crows mobbing something.
Grosbeak, Red-eye [Red-eyed Vireo] & Ovenbird hd. [heard] on B.H. [Ball's Hill]
Pine Park glorified by wondrous show of
lupins in full bloom & every where marked
with old deer tracks. Home by noon.
Weeded flower beds & made bark bird houses
with Zeph's help, in P.M.