Concord
Ther [Thermometer] Friday, May 18, 1917 Wea [Weather]
75 [degrees] max. [maximum] Second flight May migrants. Fair
Forenoon sunny but hazy; afternoon overcast.
Light S.W. [southwest] wind. Warmest day thus far this year.
Vegetation advancing rapidly. Forsythia in
fullest bloom. May tulips [in fullest bloom]. Plum trees [in fullest bloom].
A few cherry blossoms. Apple, birch & other
trees green with unfolding tiny leaves.
  First Blackburnian Warbler ([male in full song] Pulpit R. woods [Pulpit Rock woods])
Bobolinks (5 [males] in roadside oak, one [in full song]) Oriole ([male in full song]
in oak grove), Hummingbirds [male] [female] at tulips front of h. [house].
Chimney Swift (1 flying high 11 A.M.)
Nashville [Nashville Warbler] & Blk thr. Green Warblers [Black-throated Green Warbler] singing in
many places. Oven birds in increased numbers,
also. Only one White thr. Sp. [White-throated Sparrow] & one Junco.
(Bobolink & Oriole noted at Cd. [Concord] by Norton, May 15)
The flight of incoming migrants to-day, like that
of yesterday, was apparently not a very heavy
one. There should be a grand rush of them
to-morrow for every condition favors it.
  Spent most of day working in flower
garden with George. Walked to Birch F. [Birch Field]
with Timmy at 8 A.M. & 6.30 P.M.
  Found a second young Screech Owl lying
dead beneath big elm at 7 A.M. What can
have caused this. Neither bird shows signs of injury.

Concord
Ther [Thermometer] Saturday, May 19, 1917 Wea [Weather]
78 [degrees] max. [maximum] Heavy inrush Warblers Fine
Cloudless & very warm with light southerly wind
and frequent intervals of calm air.
  Vegetation leaping ahead at top speed. Every hour
brought more or less marked change. Cherry trees
& Shad bush in full bloom by sunset. Tulips
almost at best. Many trees leafing out fast.
Grand chorus Toads & Hylas at & after sunset.
  First Veery, Cat bird, Usnea W. [Usnea Warbler], Yellow W. [Yellow Warbler],
Black-thr. Blue [Black-throated Blue Warbler] (2 [males in full song], Magnolia (5 [males in full song])
Chestnut side [Chestnut-sided Warbler] (2 [males in full song]), Maryland Yel. thr. [Maryland Yellow-throat] (2 [males in full song]
Red-eye Vireo [Red-eyed Vireo] ([male in full song]), Yellow-thr. V. [Yellow-throated Vireo] (male] [in full song]) Eave Swallow.
  Besides these there were various others noted
before to-day but now present in much
greater numbers. It was, indeed, an inrush
of very considerable magnitude especially
as regards Warblers. These were mostly 
in Cedar Park, in the run & in Birch Field,
scattered about everywhere as is their
wont during such warm calm weather.
There was also a really heavy flight 
of Peabody birds, mostly dull colored ones.
A Ruby-crown Kinglet [Ruby-crowned Kinglet] in Birch Field
had a rarely perfect song to which I
listened long.
  To Birch F. [Birch Field] with Tim at 8-9 A.M.
Planted trees & sprayed gooseberry & currant bushes.
The Darlings called in late P.M.