Concord
Spraying begun
Ther [Thermometer] Saturday, May 18, 1918 Wea [Weather]
First Tree Toad [in full song] in water Perfect.
Clear & warm. Forenoon dead calm.
Fresh southerly breeze in afternoon & evening.
2 Garden Toads & a Tree Toad (the first)
singing in pond front of house thro. [through]
evening. Garden Toads there every evening
for week past. Hylas still in full
cry in pools across road.
Most apple trees have shed nearly all
their blossoms. Many forest trees in
full leaf. Almost all our Honey Locusts
& a good many hickories seem to
have been winter killed. The same
fate has befallen practically all red 
cedars, large & small, in exposed hill
pastures both here & in Belmont & Waltham.
Hardly any privet hedges escaped similar
destruction even in sheltered parts of
Cambridge. 
  First Red-eyed Vireo [male in full song] near house.
Peabody bird & Brown Thrasher singing
close about it. 
  Spent entire forenoon spraying apple &
other trees on Farm Burbank & Zeph
working on hand pump for me.
Gardening in P.M. Walked to Ritchie pl. [Ritchie place]
at evening.

Concord
Ther [Thermometer] Sunday, May 19, 1918 Wea [Weather]
Perfect
Clear & warm with fresh, sweet southerly wind.
A few irises bloomed yesterday, very many to-day.
  First Wood Pewee [in full song] oak grove rear of barn
[First] Yellow thr. Vireo [Yellow-throated Vireo] [in full song] big elm, Hildreth Corner.
A Parula Warbler only north bound migrant.
Delightful bird music all about house
6-9 A.M. Oriole, Grosbeak, Purple Finch,
Tanager, Towhee, Song Sparrow, the
Wood Pewee, a Red-eyed Vireo, Indigo
bird, Crested Flycatcher, Phoebee [Phoebe]
Chestnut side Warbler [Chestnut-sided Warbler], Ovenbird etc.
Maryland Yellow thr. [Maryland Yellow-throat] in lilacs behind house.
Veery there at evening.
  To Chester Duren's at 9.30. Big colony
of Swallows in his barn. Walking with
him in his pine woods heard very many
birds of various common kinds.
  To Concord at 3 P.M. Spent an
hour at the Emersons seeing Mr. & Mrs.
& Ellen. Crested Flycatcher calling, [male]
Hummer [Hummingbird] at blos. [blossoming] lilacs. Next to the Whites
seeing George & Marjorie. Yellow thr. [Yellow-throated Vireo]
& Warbling Vireos singing in big elm.
Home by 5. Watering flower beds after that.