Concord.
Ther [Thermometer] Monday, May 20, 1918 Wea [Weather]
Fine
  Cloudless & warm with strong S.W. [southwest] wind.
Apple blossoms all gone, fruit
closing calyxes. Dandelions passing.
Iris is coming into bloom. Not
many mosquitos. Hylas, Garden Toads
& Tree Toads uniting their voices in
pleasing nocturnal concerts close
about our house.
  First Black-bill Cuckoo [Black-billed Cuckoo], cooing in
orchard. Peabody bird singing near
cow pasture where one spent last
summer. No north-bound migrants
  Duren came with his hand-spraying
outfit this morning and worked among
the apple trees all day. His cousin
managed the spray nozzle & did it
remarkably well. George helped at the
pump. The wind bothered a good deal.
  I was with them most of
forenoon. Worked among my flowers
in P.M. Watered them at evening.
Did not get into woods all day.

Concord.
Ther [Thermometer] Tuesday, May 21, 1918 Wea [Weather]
Dull
  Cloudy, calm & warm with fine rain
falling gently every now & then.
  First Black-poll [Blackpoll Warbler] & Bay breast Warblers [Bay-breasted Warbler], one 
male of each species singing, the former in
oaks at rear of barn, the latter in
those at foot of lane. There was also
an Usnea Warbler.
  The Peabody bird heard at intervals
all day somewhere near cow pasture.
The [male] Oriole continues to frequent our
dooryard elms from sunrise to sunset.
He is a superb singer of the good old-
fashioned type of voice such as we have
not heard here for many years before. I
hear others with similarly rich, clear
varied notes in various parts of Concord.
They seem to have replaced the monotonous
unmusical-voiced ones everywhere.
A Tanager sings all day near house.
  Worked in flower beds, weeding &
cultivating them, from breakfast time
to 4 P.M. Took a short walk at eve [evening].
My strength has at last become normal
or almost is but my eyes still trouble me.