Concord.
Ther [Thermometer] Sunday, May 26, 1918 Wea [Weather] 
Fair
Partly cloudy & very cool with
strong keen north-east wind.
  Shortly after breakfast Gordon Hutchins
called to solicit Red Cross Subscription.
I gave him $25.
  Starting at 10.30 A.M., with Gilbert [Robert A. Gilbert] in
Ford car, Dick Dana [Richard Henry Dana Jr.] & I motored first 
to Sleepy Hollow Cemetery where we spent
half hour pruning dead wood from
laurels about Memorial & where Miss
Eaton chatted with us for a few minutes.
  Many birds singing - including a Black-poll [Blackpoll Warbler], 
Bay-breast [Bay-breasted Warbler], Thrasher, Purple Finch, Wood Pewee.
Next to the Keyes pasture which we entered
together for first time since May 1864, when,
with Dan F. [Daniel Chester French], we found Grass Finch nest there.
Next to Middlesex School where we
collections in Thoreau Mus. [Thoreau Museum] & heard a Crested
Flycatcher, Bobolink etc (Howe not there)
Next to the Emersons where we spent
half hour with Mr. & Mrs. E. Home
by 12.45. Dick left me at 2.30 to
return to Cambridge. After that I
called at the Howes seeing Mr. H. [Howe] &
his daughter.

Concord.
Ther [Thermometer] Monday, May 27, 1918 Wea [Weather] 
Mixed
Early morn dark cloudy with heavy
shower about 8. Sun shining dimly by
10.30 and brightly most of afternoon.
Midday hours oppressively warm & humid;
cool at morn & eve.
  Mosquitos bad. Iris bloom at last.
Hylas, Garden Toads & Tree Toads were
still in full cry up to the night of 
May 20. Since then I have not
heard one. They do not often become silent
so generally & abruptly. Thousands of
Garden Toad tadpoles have just hatched
in our little artificial pond. A Wood Frog
haunts it. I hear no Frog voices anywhere.
  First Yellow-bill Cuckoo [Yellow-billed Cuckoo], cooing in Cedar
Park with a Black-bill [Black-billed Cuckoo] answering it,
there.
  Magnolia Warbler [male in full song] in apple tree at
our back door - the only north bound migrant.
  Spent most of day close about house
working with George in flower garden
& watching Zeph sheath barn.