Concord (Farm)
Ther [Thermometer] Friday, June 16, 1916 Wea [Weather]
Dull.
  Cloudy & foggy with some fine mist
driving before chill N.E. [northeast] wind and a
brisk shower of larger drops in P.M.
Sun out once or twice for a few minutes.
  The singing of many if not most of our
local birds has apparently past [passed]
its full-tide fervor & is sensibly
abating although a few species such as
the Robin, the Red-eye [Red-eyed Vireo] & the Indigo bird
are notable exceptions to this rule. The
Cat birds [Catbirds], also, continue to sing freely.
Quiet reigns at last among the Robins
since the Screech Owls have departed
but I know of only two occupied nests
one in a dense foliaged apple tree at rear
of house, the other in front of it in the
Forsythia thicket, both with young.
There is a Catbirds' nest with eggs in the
snowberry bushes under our back windows.
  Spent most of day weeding &
transplanting among my flowers. George
running lawn mower. Walked thro Berry 
Pasture at eve. Chestnut-side W.[Chestnut-sided Warbler] &
Oven bird [Ovenbird] only birds singing there.

Concord (Farm)
Ther [Thermometer] Saturday, June 17, 1916 Wea [Weather] Stormy

Dark cloudy with incessant heavy rain
from daybreak to sunset, flooding roads &
mowing fields and overflowing brooks & other
water courses. One of the most violent &
continuous downpours of this excessively rainy
month. Vegetation flourishing wondrously
where not drowned. Not for many a year have
I seen the tree foliage so luxuriant at this
season. Even our big elms seem to be
recovering much of their lost vigor.
  Spraying - such as could be done - uncommonly
efficatious [efficacious] this year. Everywhere about the
Farm it has well-nigh extirpated all leaf-
eating insects but the Gyps [Gypsy Moths] are bad where
no poison has been used. What has become 
of the Calusomas [Calosomas] I have not seen one
running about yet.
  Mountain laurel about to bloom - very late
Not a strawberry ripe as yet.
Birds mostly silent thro [through] day. Delightful
concert of Veeries in run at 7.30 P.M.
where I had two singing close about me at
once near Pulpit Rock.
  Spent most of day working in barn &
shed with Burbank & George. Walked to
Birch Field at eve. Brook roaring in Glen. 