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Ther [Thermometer] Tuesday, April 24, 1917 Wea [Weather]
Blood root in bloom Fine
Clear & cool with light northerly wind.
A fine day but with decided chill in air.
  First noted Hermit Thrush, h'd (heard) calling
in run at eve.; Barn Swallow, 1 flying
N. [north] at sunset; Car. Dove [Carolina Dove], 1 cooing on Dakin's
Hill at 6.45 P.M.
  6 Flickers together in dooryard elm, 8 A.M.,
bowing, scraping, shouting & wickering - a very
unusual assemblage. Scattering later they were
about the orchard all day shouting freely &
also drumming on wall of barn & on tinned
places in tree trunks.
  Perfect flood of Robins. Must have seen
25 or more, 15 together in Ritchie field.
Singing everywhere at evening. Whether local
birds or north-bound migrants I am in doubt.
  2 Brown Creepers near together (15 ft.) in
Pulpit R. [Pulpit Rock] pine woods. 2 Yellow Palm [Yellow Palm Warbler] & 2
Pine Warblers there also.
Dove cooing at 6.45 P.M. on Dakin's Hill
[male] ad. [adult] Marsh Hawk flying S.E. [southeast] over orchard 5 P.M.
[female] Cooper's Hawk skimming low past house 11 A.M.
6 Tree Swallows together about boxes all day.
Timmy & I walked to Ritchie pl. [Ritchie place] & Birch F. [Birch Field]
just after breakfast. He hurt his right fore
leg somehow & is very lame to-night.
  Spent most of day in house writing.
Another walk about place & woods late P.M.

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Ther [Thermometer] Wednesday, April 25, 1917 Wea [Weather]
Fine
Clear & cool with light E. wind. Water in poultry
pans skimmed with ice at sunrise (Fide Burbank)
Crocuses past. Squills about at best. Gooseberry
bushes green with just unfolded leaves.
  Wood Frogs & Hylas still in full cry after
dark. Heard Garden Toads in Cambridge on
23rd but none hereabouts as yet.
First Bluet Butterflies to-day.
  First noted. Solitary Vireo [male in full song].
Timmy & I took our morning walk to
Birch Field & went over same ground just
before sunset. On former occasion he
treed a Gray Squirrel in tall birch & I
shot it with 22 cal rifle at fourth shot.
In Pulpit Rock pine woods & together were
a Chickadee, Brown Creeper, Yellow rump [Yellow-rumped Warbler],
Pine Warbler, 2 Yellow Redpolls, Solitary
Vireo. Field Sparrows singing in orchard.
12 Juncos in lane. Hermit singing fitfully
& brokenly in Birch Field at sunset.
Another 200 yds. away chucking & flitting on 
ahead of me through birches.
  Spent most of day in house oppressed
by extreme lassitude - troublesome of late.
Mrs. Melvin & 2 girls called at morn. Also
Pat Flannery- redolent of bad whisky