Screech Owl follows me at eve. Concord
Ther [Thermometer] Wednesday, June 27, 1917 Wea [Weather]
Bay-breast Warbler [male in full song], oaks near barn. Fine
Clear & very warm with strong S.W. [southwest] wind.
Heavy rain last night.
Sticky Locusts in full bloom.
  As I was tying up grape vines at 5 P.M.
a [male] Bay-breasted Warbler began singing at short
regular intervals in oak grove at rear of barn &
kept it up for 10 or more minutes. He gave the
normal song - weary-weary-wee & was 
answered regularly but a Redstart in a
neighboring tree. The foliage was so dense I
could not set eyes on him.
  Returning from Ritchie place at 8 P.M. I
was followed through run to foot of lane by a
Screech Owl who circled low about me &
repeatedly swooped close past my head snapping
his bill & calling ah-ow, ah-ow sometimes
varied to oo or hoo rather soft & cooing.
No doubt the parent bird of brood of young hatched
in big elm & now with them in the Run.
I saw its shadowy form only dimly in twilight.
At 7 A.M. & again at 7.15 P.M. a [male] Marsh Hawk
glided low over field in front of house &
thence into Cedar Park, as Gilbert [Robert A. Gilbert] & I were at
breakfast & supper.
  Spent forenoon wandering about Farm &
woodland studying moth conditions etc. Heard
White-throat [White-throated Sparrow] many times but failed to see him.
Tied up grape vines & picked strawberries in P.M.

Concord. Non effect of spraying on Farm birds.
Ther [Thermometer] Thursday, June 28, 1917 Wea [Weather]
70 [degrees] max [maximum] Spraying season ends. Fine
Brilliantly clear with warm sunshine & light
cool northerly wind. Grass fields white with
daisies and yellow with buttercups, both now
in fullest bloom. Iris season about over.
Only a few ripe strawberries as yet. From
our large bed we have difficulty in
picking a quart or two daily & these
are mostly of the "ever-bearing" kind.
  Birds singing well all day. Noted none
of any especial interest. There is no
indication that any have suffered
harm resulting from our spraying
although this has been unusually through [thorough]
& comprehensive this year, embracing
practically all deciduous trees & shrubbery
in & close about the Farm as well
as a good deal of the neighboring woodlands
at Birch Field, Berry Pasture & elsewhere.
  Spent most of forenoon working in flower 
beds. Zeph came to cut a lot of locusts
along the road. During [Duren] came in P.M. to
spray some birches in Cedar Park, two large oaks
in run & part of Berry Pasture. This ends
our spaying for this year I trust.