First strawberries Concord
Ther [Thermometer] Saturday, June 1, 1918 Wea [Weather]
89 [degrees] House Wren arrives. Fair.
Partly cloudy, mostly sunny. Oppressively warm
& humid. Light thunder shower at sunset.
Tree Toads & Green Frogs singing loudly after
dark. Mosquitoes savage close about house.
Iris shows a little past its best.
On May 29 we picked a pint of ripe ever-
bearing strawberries & on 31st nearly a quart.
  After giving up all hope of a House
Wren this year I was delighted to hear one
singing at daybreak close to my window.
He sang all day in or near dooryard.
The only north-bound migrants were 2
Magnolia Warblers, one singing, the other calling,
in apple tree by bird bath. To this bath 
came birds of various kinds at all hours.
Sometimes it held 3 or 4 at once. I saw in
it Robins, Chippies [Chipping Sparrow], Indigo birds, [male] & [female],
Chestnut side W. [Chestnut-sided Warbler], Goldfinch, 2 Song Sparrows.
Heard Peabody bird near cow pasture &
Hermit Thrush in Birch Field. Also a 
Night hawk peeping near house.
  Spent entire day out of doors working
in flower gardens. Zeph carpentering. George
spreeing in Boston.

Concord.
Ther [Thermometer] Sunday, June 2, 1918 Wea [weather]
82 [degrees] Fine
Brilliantly clear with light N.W. [northwest] wind.
Very warm but without the oppressive
humidity of yesterday.
  Iris show passing. Hosts of Dragon Flies
& a few Swallow-tailed Butterflies.
  No new birds. North-bound migration
apparently about over but a Magnolia
Warbler still lingering & singing freely
to-day on Cedar Park & in an apple
tree close to house (by bird bath).
Least Flycatcher singing in oak grove
behind barn, Yellow Warbler & Oriole
in dooryard elm. 2 Indigo birds within
ear-shot of house & another at Ritchie pl. [Ritchie place]
Red-shouldered Hawk soaring & screaming
high in air. Many Warblers (Black
thr. Greens [Black-throated Green Warbler], Mniotiltas [Mniotilta varia], & Oven birds) singing
in Run & Pulpit Rock woods. At least
4 Maryland Yellow throats scattered about F. [Farm].
  Walked to Ritchie place, dpwn Run
& thro [through] Pulpit R. woods [Pulpit Rock woods] soon after breakfast.
Luxuriant foliage & plenty of birds in free song.
Wrote letters after this walk. Gardening in
late P.M.