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Ther [Thermometer] Monday, May 28, 1917 Wea [Weather]
40 [degrees] Northbound Warblers in swarms Dull.
Cloudy with chill easterly wind and
frequent showers of fine rain.
  Vegetation again at a standstill. Scarce
any apple trees yet in bloom. Peach trees
still pink with unshed blossoms. Lawn
thickly spangled with golden dandelions.
Shad bush in full bloom still. Season
now three weeks late. Forest trees mostly
leafless.
  Spent entire forenoon rambling slowly thro [through]
the Run, Birch Field, Prescott pines &
Lawrence's woods, watching & admiring
Warblers scattered everywhere. Tennessees [Tennessee Warbler] most
numerous. Counted 15+ doubtless saw more.
7 or 8 Bay-breasts [Bay-breasted Warbler], all [males], 6 [males] Black thr.
Blues [Black-throated Blue Warbler] & 3 or 4 [females] (3 [males] & a [female] together on ground
in pine woods) several Yellow rumps [Yellow-rumped Warbler], 5 [males] Black-polls [Blackpoll Warbler]
Magnolias [Magnolia Warbler] & Blackburnians [Blackburnian Warbler], Chestnut sides [Chestnut-sided Warbler],
Nashvilles [Nashville Warbler], Redstarts etc. It was a truly
remarkable & rather bewildering show
which I enjoyed most keenly.
  Mr. & Mrs. Robbins & Mr. Norton came down
to see me at 2 P.M. We talked for an hour
& then went to Birch Field in the rain.
Only a few birds there of the many present in 
A.M. Yellow-bellied Flycatcher in tops of
birches, very tame. Came back via Bensen
lane. Big flock of Warblers too restless to
do much with. Possibly Tennessees we thought.

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Ther [Thermometer] Tuesday, May 29, 1917 Wea [Weather]
Northbound Warblers still swarming  Dull.
Dark cloudy & misty with chill N.E. [northeast] wind.
Light rain at times. Heavy rain fall all last
night. Streams swollen, surface water in fields.
Vegetation making no obvious advance.
  Spent forenoon with Burbank transplanting
strawberry & other plants including grape vines!
To Birch Field at 3 P.M. Big mixed flock
of Warblers there, mostly Tennessees of which I
 counted 14 as they flitted one after another across
an opening. Several of them [females]. All restless & very
shy permitting no close approach. They uttered their
sharp, high-pitched chirps every now & then but
not one sang. Heard a [male] in full song in pine 
woods. Those in Birch field feeding mostly in
birches. With or near them various other Warblers,
one [male] Bay-breast [Bay-breasted Warbler], [one male] Black poll [Blackpoll Warbler], sev. [several] D. virens [Dendroica virens], [males and females]
Magnolias, sev. [several] Usnea W. [Usnea Warblers] both sexes, [male] [female]
Nashville, 4 Chestnut-sided [Chestnut-sided Warbler], 1 Myrtle [Myrtle Warbler],
several Oven birds & Mniotiltas.
  Only a few birds near house - one [male] Magnolia [Magnolia Warbler]
2 Peabody birds only north-bound ones.
Robin on 4 eggs in shed another on goose neck nest.
Both pairs making great outcry near Owl nest
in elm at evening.