Tennessee Warblers mostly young. Concord.
Mrs. Burbank operated on for appendicitis.
Ther [Thermometer] Wednesday, May 30, 1917 Wea [Weather]
Cape May W. [Cape May Warbler] Mysterious sound in woods. Fair
Thin cloudy with occasional sunshine. Very cool
with light northerly to easterly wind.
  Peach blossoms falling. Two apple trees in nearly
full bloom alive with Bumble bees & visited by several
Hummingbirds but not by any Honey Bees that I could see.
  Spent entire forenoon rambling, 20 gun in hand,
through woodland between Farm & Davis Swamp.
Very many Warblers scattered everywhere &
mostly silent. Tennessees [Tennessee Warbler] so nearly gone that only 3
were seen or heard. Black-thr. Blues [Black-throated Blue Warbler] still here
& self same birds in same places as on 28th.
One Bay-breast [Bay-breasted Warbler] ([male]), Black poll [Blackpoll Warbler] ([male]), sev. [several] Magnolia [Magnolia Warbler],
4 dull [female] Myrtle [Myrtle Warbler], 2 Blackburnian [Blackburnian Warbler], [male] Nashville [Nashville Warbler],
2 Canada [Canada Warbler], 1 Olive Thrush [Olive-backed Thrush], 2 Swainsons [Swainson's Thrush], 2 Vireos.
White wing Crossbill [White-winged Crossbill] calling in Cedar Park evidently 
perched but unseen.
  Near Pulpit Rock heard twice what sounded like
baying of Hound coming from scanty thicket not twenty
yards distant but could see nothing there.
  Shot two Gray Squirrels in woods & two
Chipmunks in dooryard. The latter were
digging & eating crocus bulbs.
  Most of P.M. gardening. Just before
5 P.M. saw a rather dull pl [plumaged] [male] Cape May
Warbler in blos. [blossoming] cherry tree at E. [east] end of house.
  Harry & Alice Bartlett called at 5.30.
I took them to Birch Field. We
admired new growth there & heard a
Grosbeak singing divinely near Pulpit Rock.

Mrs. Burbank went to Concord Hos. [Concord Hospital] last night. Dr. [?] operated for appendicitis 10 A.M. today

Concord Spraying begun.
Ther [Thermometer] Thursday, May 31, 1917 Wea [Weather]
Perfect
Cloudless & almost windless through most of day
but easterly wind rising & sky overcast at sunset.
Warm in sun, just comfortably cool in shade.
  A dozen or more apple trees in full bloom, two
or three shedding a few petals, many still in bud.
Peach & cherry tree blossoms falling fast.
  First Night hawk, unseen, peeping at sunset,
apparently on wing over Cedar Park.
I did not get into woods until sunset &
then found almost no birds there. The usual
summer resident species were well represented
about Farm & singing freely all day. Only a
few north-bound migrants in orchard. These
included a [male] Tennessee [Tennessee Warbler] in full song, a [female]
Cape May [Cape May Warbler] at 9 A.M., in same blos. [blossoming] bird cherry
at E. [east] end of house where I saw the [male] last evening.
There was also a [female] Usnea Warbler & several
Hummers [Hummingbirds] sport among apple blossoms with bees.
  Dexter [Smith Owen Dexter] reports Tennessee Warblers as numerous
as ever at Concord this morning. He had 15
in sight there at one time & saw 9
Cape Mays [Cape May Warbler] (5 [males] 4 [females]) in a barberry hedge at S.W. [southwest]
base of Nashawtuck Hill.
  Spent forenoon with Burbank spraying
cherry orchard & shrubbery along lane.
P.M. with George weeding strawberry bed etc.