Concord
Ther [Thermometer] Friday, June 1, 1917 Wea [Weather]
North bound migrants mostly gone. Dull.
Light cloudy with fresh, cool S.W. [Southwest] wind.
Brief showers in P.M.
  About half our apple trees in full bloom,
a few shedding petals; the other half still in
bud. Birches, alders & maple green with young
leaves. Oak foliage beginning to unfold.
Vegetation generally at least two weeks
behind its usual stage at this date. I have
never known it so belated before. Even the
asparagus has yielded but few cuttings as yet.
  North-bound migrants almost all gone by,
apparently. Could find only one small flock of
them - in Cedar Park. It contained a [male] Magnolia
Warbler, a [female] Bay-breast [Bay-breasted Warbler], [female] Black poll [Blackpoll Warbler], 2 [female] Redstarts,
a [male] Nashville [northwest] [male and female] Chestnut-side [Chestnut-sided Warbler]. The [female] Chestnut side [Chestnut-sided Warbler]
was unlike any I remember ever to have seen at this
season being in the autumnal pl. [plumage] of young [females], that is
grass green above, ashy white beneath, without the
least trace anywhere of chestnut or pure yellow.
One White-thr. Sp. [White-throated Sparrow] [male in full song] in hen yard.
No Warblers in blos. [blossom] orchard. Gray Owl
showing cat-like face at hole, 7 P.M.
Chipmunks have ceased molesting bulbs perhaps
because a cat was prowling about this morn.
  Spent forenoon in Prescott pines with 
Burbank & George. We cut 50 young pines for
propping peach trees.
  Gardening in P.M. Through Berry pas. [Berry pasture] at eve.

Concord
Apple orchards at fullest bloom.
Gypsy larvae swarming.
Ther [Thermometer] Saturday, June 2, 1917 Wea [Weather]
72 [degrees] max. [maximum] Few north-bound migrants Dull
Thin cloudy, warm & humid; little or no wind;
a few rain drops now & then.
About the height of the apple tree bloom. It is
comparatively light this year.
  Tiny Gypsy larvae out by myriads. One or
more on almost every birch & apple leaf. Foliage
already riddled with little holes made by them.
  A few north-bound migrants still passing.
3 Black-polls [Blackpoll Warbler] [2 males, 1 female] together in apple blossoms. Tennessee
W. [Tennessee Warbler] in full song this forenoon in blossoming orchard &
in elms & oaks. At least 6 [male] Maryland Yl. throats [Maryland Yellow-throat]
singing in run & about cow pasture. One
White-throat Sparrow [White-throated Sparrow] singing. Nighthawk
peeping, apparently while perched, somewhere near
Pulpit Rock. Tame hen Partridge walking
sedately on ground with [within] 30 feet of me near stone
wall, foot of run. Crows in great numbers
& very noisy flocking to cornfields & digging
up horse manure harrowed in them but not
apparently disturbing our tarred seed corn.
Screaming Jays raiding ceaselessly in orchard & woods.
Red Squirrel hunting suspiciously near Robins
nests on & about house. I finally shot him. His
death squeaks filled my soul with sorrow &
remorse - poor little creature. Field Mouse
raiding my wild flower bed at house.
Spent most of day out of doors working at various
things in garden & woods.

Gilbert [Robert A. Gilbert] motored C. [Caroline Brewster] from Lancaster to Cambridge in P.M. He got back at 6.