Concord
Ther [Thermometer] Monday, June 25, 1917 Wea [Weather]
Fair
Heavy shower from inky black cloud, but
without thunder or lightning, 11-12 A.M.
Otherwise a clear, calm & rather warm day.
  Bird music beginning to decline in
fervency & persistence but still very
general & delightful, especially at morn
& eve. At 7.52 P.M. a Veery in Berry Pasture
a Hermit Thrush & 2 Whippoorwills afar
off towards Bigelow road & the Peabody bird
at our cow pasture were all singing
at the same time & heard plainly 
enough as I stood at rear of house.
  Entering our barn at 8 P.M. I started 
a Flicker who had evidently settled
there to pass the night. He went out 
not by the wide open door but through
a hole in the boarding, of his own
drilling, which I have not noticed before.
  Spent entire day working near house
with George. We weeded flower beds &
cut down half a dozen peach trees (loaded
with fruit) that shaded our asparagus
bed to its obvious detriment.

Concord
Ther [Thermometer] Tuesday, June 26, 1917 Wea [Weather]
Fair
Forenoon mostly sunny, afternoon cloudy with
a light shower. Warm. Strong S.W. [douthwest] wind.
  Not much bird music. Conditions unfavorable
for it. Robins sang freely towards sunset,
however, and White-throated Sparrows at
intervals all day. Two Pheasants crowing at
same time, one in run, other in Berry pasture.
I no longer hear the Quail & fear he has
deserted this neighborhood. We now have
only one Vireo, a Red-eye, within hearing
from house. A Redstart sings all day long
in oak grove behind barn. Song Sparrows
unusually silent this spring & summer but
singing a little now. A pair seem to be
nesting in Forsythia thicket front of house.
I hear the [male] Oriole daily in our dooryard
elms & presume his mate is brooding eggs or
young in the nest she built high in the tree
at east end of shed although this, like the
rest was heavily sprayed. 
  Spent most of day weeding flower beds.
Dexter [Smith Owen Dexter] came down to dine with me &
left at 2.48 P.M. Walked through
Berry Pasture at sunset.