Concord (Farm)
Ther [Thermometer] Wednesday, June 28, 1916  Wea [Weather]
Fine
  Clear, calm, warm & sultry with
thunder show [thundershower] passing to N. [north] of us in mid P.M.
  Birds singing freely all day. I
miss [missed?] only a very few of these here
early in the month but they have had
ill success breeding this year & almost
no young except one or two broods of robins
one of Chippins [Chipping sparrows] & one of Orioles seem to
have been reared thus far. On looking
into the Tanager's nest in the little
cedar in Cedar Park this forenoon
I found to my surprise that it held
newly hatched young. How this could be
when it was certainly empty & only half
finished on June 19 & held but one
egg on the 21st is beyond me to
understand.
  Tree Toads calling incessantly in trees
close to house & Green Frogs in field across
road after day.
  Spent most of day working about the
Farm. Walked to Birch Field at 10 A.M.
Gypsy larvae raging there.

Concord (Farm, Davis Hill, Ball's & Holden Hills)
Ther [Thermometer] Thursday, June 29, 1916 Wea [Weather] Fine
Ant Lions on Davis Hill.
Clear and cool with fresh N.W. [northwest] wind.
  Usual birds in usual places about Farm.
  In Pulpit Rock woods a Canada Nuthatch
whining, a Blackburnian & 3 D. virens [Dendroica virens] singing.
In Birch Field a Nashville Warbler singing steadily.
2 [male] Tanagers (one singing) together in our dooryard
elm, [female] on nest with young, [male] [in full song] in Prescott pines,
[male] [in full song] on Ball's Hill. Just to north of it, on
poplar green knoll across swamp, a Hermit T. [Hermit Thrush]
in full song at 5.30 P.M. Between it and
Holden's Hill, along edge of river meadows
(still flooded) I heard 6 Song Sparrows,
5 Maryland Yellow-throats, 2 Red wings [Red-winged Blackbirds].
Bittern pumping near Birch Id. [Birch Island], another on
S.[south] side Great Meadows. 2 Bull Frogs 
bellowing lustily.
  Smooth slender, blackish measuring worms 3
inches long stripping red maples Davis Swamp.
Strong colony Ant Lions scattered along earthy
bank by roadway river front Davis Hill.
  Spent A.M. in Birch Field with Burbank
spraying with our hand pump. Walked to
Ball's Hill & back via Holden's
Hill in P.M. (5-7)

Ball's Hill still dense foliaged but many Gypsy larvae at woods there.