Concord
Ther [Thermometer] Friday, June 15, 1917 Wea [Weather]
Marked increase in local birds Mixed.
Early morn cloudy. Brisk showers 8-10 A.M.
Rest of day mostly cloudy, partly sunny, calm,
warm, humid. 
  To Birch Field, 9 A.M. to look up the
Magnolia Warbler. Found him in same place &
had good view of him through glass. Very handsome
bird in high plumage. All the time I was there
(about 20 min. [minutes]) he sang incessantly & vigorously
at short, regular intervals, usually in the tops
of tall gray birches, sitting there motionless awhile
before flying to another tree top of same kind,
sometimes hidden from my view amid the 
dense growth of young pines. He must be nesting
somewhere in them, I believe.
  Lots of birds singing freely everywhere to-day.
It seems as if many of them must have
arrived during the past two days. There is
still a great scarcity of Vireos. I did not hear
a single Red-eye [Red-eyed Vireo] to-day.
  Dead young in Robins nest on front of house
& [female] parent missing. I suspect she has been seized
on nest at night by one of the Screech Owls nesting 
only 30 yds. [yards] away on big elm. Her mate on lawn.
The other two nests have lusty young.
  Spent forenoon rambling about. Men cultivating
corn at Ritchie place. Lots of birds there.
Mowed lawn & weeded strawberries in P.M.

Concord
Ther [Thermometer] Saturday, June 16, 1917 Wea [Weather]
Dull
Dark cloudy & misty with occasional light
rain & gentle southerly breezes. Very heavy rain
through much of last night. Everything water-
soaked again. Brooks & swamps flooded.
  Oaks in nearly full leaf. Locusts only thinly
foliaged as yet. Catalapa [Catalpa] leaves just unfolding.
Horse chestnuts still in bloom. Iris is making
glorious show, almost at its best. All
vegetation at least two weeks behind its usual
status at this date or about the stage
usual at the beginning of the month of June.
  The number of local birds of several kinds
seems to have increased three or four fold
during the last few days. Strange as it may
appear I am convinced that there has been
a very considerable influx of them at these
late dates. This is especially marked with
Chestnut-sided Warblers Black thr. Greens [Black-throated Green Warbler] &
Maryland Yellow-throats. Heard a Magnolia
Warbler singing in Cedar Park & a Peabody bird
near Cow Pasture. (The Magnolia probably came
from Birch Field). Birds of every kind 
singing freely & rapturously all day long.
  Spent most of forenoon at Ritchie place &
in Berry Pasture, bird watching.
  Mowed lawn & weeded strawberry bed
in P.M. Weeds growing ominously fast.
4 men fighting them among corn & potatoes.