Cambridge - Concord
Ther [Thermometer] Monday, July 9, 1917 Wea [Weather]
Deer tracks in veg. [vegetable] garden. Dull.
Thin cloudy & very cool with fresh
N.E. [northeast] wind. Light showers in late P.M.
  Leaving home at 8.20 A.M.
Gilbert [Robert A. Gilbert] & I, with John Harris, motored
to Concord via Arlington, Lexington
& Bedford. After reaching Farm I
set to work at once & kept at it
until 7 P.M., weeding, cultivating &
watering in beds of strawberries, 
vegetables & flowers. Visited the Cow 
Pasture to cut some birches for
stakes but got no further away.
  Birds singing well all day, among
them a Cat bird, Robin, Tanager,
Red-eye [Red-eyed Vireo], Chestnut sided Warbler,
Oven bird. Maryland Yellow-throat
Indigo bird, Yellow-billed Cuckoo.
4 [male] Goldfinches flying level, together,
all in full song at same time.
Young Tree Swallows still in (two) nests.
Fresh deer tracks (large doe) through
strawberry bed. Oceans of strawberries,
dead ripe. Noosed Snapping Turtle. He
has bitten off every lily leaf in pond.

Concord - Cambridge
Ther [Thermometer] Tuesday, July 10, 1917 Wea [Weather]
Fair
Partly sunny but mostly cloudy, with
light, cool easterly winds.
  Spent forenoon at Farm pulling
up dock, pruning blackberries, directing
the men's work etc. Also walked to
Birch Field. Gypsy larvae bad in spots
but mostly suppressed within sprayed
areas. Those lying immediately about
our cultivated land almost wholly free 
from them.
  Birds singing freely, especially Cat bird
& Goldfinch, Tanager, Indigo bird &
Pine Warbler. Heard one Blackburnian [Blackburnian Warbler].
  Gilbert & I started for Cambridge at
noon. We went via Concord, Walden,
Waltham & Watertown. Plenty of Gypsy
moth devastation in Lincoln, many 
large pasture oak & some mixed woodland
being completely stripped of foliage.
  Home by 1.15. While we were at dinner
on back piazza a Rose breast Grosbeak [Rose-breasted Grosbeak]
sang entrancingly, many times in the 
lilacs - such tender, rich & flowing song.
  Spent afternoon in Museum.
E.R.S. [Elizabeth R. Simmons] read from Miss Austen's "Emma".
to C. [Caroline Brewster] & me in hall this eve [evening]