First Butterflies Concord
Ther [Thermometer] Wednesday April 4, 1917 Wea [Weather]
30 [degrees], 50 [degrees] First Wood Frogs Fine
Clear with high N.W. [northwest] wind. Ground
frozen in early morn. Noon hours
warm in sheltered places with
Butterflies of two species (Antiopa &
the big red brown & white early kind)
on wing; Grand chorus of Wood Frogs
at 3 P.M. in pond below orchard.
  Few birds seen or heard. A Song
Sparrow & a Phoebe literally the only
ones singing. All the Juncos & Fox 
Sparrows apparently gone for I could
not find one of either kind. 4 Robins
running on lawn & two flocks 7 [in a flock] 11 [in a flock] 
migrating straight northward at 5 P.M.
  Cooper's Hawk [female] going north high in
air, 10 A.M. Red shouldered H. [Red-shouldered Hawk] soaring over
orchard & alighting in Berry Pasture.
Three different parties of Gold-crests [Golden-crested Wren], a
Chickadee & a Creeper only birds met with
in woodland. 3 Pheasants [1 male] [2 females] eating
millet seed on lawn by rock curb, 6:30
A.M., the cock resplendent in sunlight.
Timmy & I spent 2 hours in forenoon
in Birch Field & 2 in P.M. in 
Prescott pines & Birch Id. woods [Birch Island woods]

Concord. Cock Pheasant chased by dog
Ther [Thermometer] Thursday, April 5, 1917 Wea [Weather]
40 [degrees] 60 [degrees] Rabbit killed by Fox. Fair
Forenoon sunny but hazy; afternoon cloudy.
Light, chill S.E. [southeast] wind all day.
First noted Field Sparrow [in full song] (sang twice,
Berry Pas. [Berry Pasture], 8 A.M.), Grass Finch ([sang twice] at 
Ritchie pl. [Ritchie place] 9 A.M.), Kingfisher 1 (by river
at Holden Hill), Black Duck 4 (flying high S. [south]
over Birch Field, 5 P.M.)
Juncos 20+, Farm, 30+ at Ritchie place
Fox Sparrow 1 [in full song] [at Ritchie place], 8 Bensen's landing, 2 Balls Hill
Song Sparrows 3 [in full song] at Farm, 2 [in full song] at Ritchie place.
A cock Pheasant pursued by "Timmy"
across Howe's meadow ran 100 yds. [yards] at first
when the little dog gained on him fast
going about 2 ft. to his 1. After the bird
took wing it was the other way but
Timmy kept on for 200 yds up a steep
hillside & was not more than 100 yds.
behind the bird when he gave it up.
Found fur, scraps of skin & bones of
Rabbit near mouth of culvert under wood
path to Ritchie pl. [Ritchie place] Rabbit evidently killed
by Fox who probably watched for & pounced
on him from roadway as he left culvert.
Spent most of A.M. working about flower
beds. Burbank & George clearing up lane, etc.
To Ball's Hill over Holden Hill at 3 P.M.
Back via Davis Hill & Prescott pines.
River over meadow but low for season.
Plenty of muskrat sign. No Red wings [Red-winged Blackbird].