Concord
Ther [Thermometer] Tuesday, June 5, 1917 Wea [Weather]
Fair
Sunny but hazy & mostly cloudy after 4 P.M.
with distant thunder. Warm & humid. Strong 
S.W. [southwest] wind.
  Vegetation hurrying forward. Forest trees,
including oaks, becoming dense with gray green
foliage & thickly clustering blossoms. Apple blooms
still persisting on nearby trees. White lilacs
coming into blossom. Darwin tulips at 
very best. A few mosquitos in woods.
Elm-leaf Beetles appearing inside house.
  First Yellow-bill Cuckoo [Yellow-billed Cuckoo] cooing in Farm orchard.
[First] Alder Flycatcher calling pip, 9 A.M.,
in bushes on hillside between barn & cow pasture.
North bound Usnea Warbler & Tennessee [Tennessee Warbler] singing
in trees over road. Ad [adult male] Peabody bird in
song near barn. Two Quail whistling "bob-white"
almost all forenoon, somewhere towards
Ritchie place.
  Spraying with Burbank 9-11 A.M. &
3-5 P.M. We did the fruit trees in
front of house & shrubbery along wood
roads to Birch Field.
  Gilbert [Caroline Brewster] motored to Cambridge at 8 A.M.
to take C. [Caroline Brewster] into Boston to see Dr. Cheeney.

Concord
Ther [Thermometer] Wednesday, June 6, 1917 We [Weather]
Perfect.
Cloudless with light easterly & southerly breezes.
Very warm.
  Many forest trees including red & black oaks
in nearly full summer foliage. Apple orchards
dense with dark green leaves & shedding
their last blossoms. First flowers showing
on German irises. Plenty of buttercups &
dandelions still at their very best.
  A Tennessee Warbler & an Usnea [Usnea Warbler], both in
full song near house. No other north-bound
migrants. Local-breeding birds apparently
all here & settled in summer haunts.
They seemed more numerous to-day than
hitherto. Among them a Wood Pewee who
sang delightfully all day in the large trees
near house. Equally near & vocal were two
[male] Indigo birds & a Maryland Yellow-throat
who seems to be making his summer home
in our Forsythia thicket. A Quail whistling
at sunset in Berry Pasture. Cat birds
all over the place.
  Spent forenoon weeding flower beds. George &
I sprayed fruit trees in P.M. (three hours of it).
Mrs. Burbank returned from hospital at 3.30.