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Ther [Thermometer] Friday, June 29, 1917 Wea [Weather]
Deer seen in Berry Pas. [Berry Pasture] Dull
Cloudy with occasional light, short showers.
Heavy & prolonged rain at evening. Cool.
Light southerly wind.
 Cat-bird singing divinely at morn & eve
in or close about door yard. Robins also
in full song. Their young have wholly
disappeared but some must be near at hand
for a mother bird came to the lawn for
earthworms & departed with her bill full of
them. Heard two Maryland Yellow-throats
singing near Cow pasture & a third in
sprout growth on high land just north of
Birch Field. Blackburnian Warbler in
listless song at northern end Pulpit Rock
pine woods.
  Crows & Jays continue to come sneaking close
about our farm buildings thereby causing the
various birds nesting there frequent alarm.
A Cooper's Hawk ([male]) pursued by excited Swallows
flew low & heavily over field in front of
house at noon, bearing a bird-like object
in his talons.
  Spent forenoon working in flower garden
& strawberry bed, afternoon with Zeph in
Pulpit Rock woods where he cut & peeled three
large chestnut trees for posts.

Large Deer seen by Zeph. Prosser [Zephaniah Prosser], 8 A.M., standing on causeway at s. [south] end of Berry Pasture.

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Walter Faxon calls.
Ther [Thermometer] Saturday, June 30, 1917 Wea [Weather]
2 Foxes barking at 11 P.M. Fine.
Clear & cool with strong N.W. [northwest] wind.
  June roses just beginning to bloom freely.
Sticky locusts in fullest bloom. Strawberries
ripening with singular deliberation. We
have as yet only a sparse supply from a
very extensive bed. Cherries a failure this
year; despite superabundant bloom there is
almost no fruit on any of the trees.
The peach crop promises to be a very generous
one. Indeed every one of our trees is loaded
with small fruit.
2 Foxes barking in Berry Pas. [Berry Pasture] answering each other, at 11 P.M.
Birds singing freely all day among them
the White-throated Sparrow. I had a good
view of him this forenoon calling him close
by "screeping" which brought an anxious
mother Song Sparrow, also. Both are evidently
nesting in a neglected area covered with young
pines & ground juniper just over wall at N.E. [Northeast] 
corner of Cow Pasture. The White-throat [White-throated Sparrow] proves to be
a handsome one in fully adult plumage.
  Spent much of day in Pulpit Rock woods where
Monson & his sons hewed out a new wood
road. I also worked in flower gardens.
  Gilbert [Robert A. Gilbert] motored C. [Caroline Brewster] from Lancaster to
Cambridge this forenoon. Faxon called at 7 P.M.
bringing some friends (the Sargents of Lexington) to see the place