Concord
Ther [Thermometer] Wednesday, June 5, 1918 Wea [Weather]
Fair.
Partly sunny, partly cloudy. Light,
cool easterly wind.
Picked 3 quarts ripe Wildwood strawberries
(much larger than last year & of
delicious flavor - vinous if rather acid.
  Yellow-bellied Flycatcher calling pee-e very
many times at 4 P.M. and again after
sunset. Heard him distinctly fr. [from] house.
He seemed to be in the Run near foot of lane.
This my first spring record for Concord.
Two birds in Camb. [Cambridge] Garden May 29, one on 30th
Local breeding birds of various kinds
singing delightfully all day long not
far from our farm house. Their music
was never more grateful to my ears
which, fortunately, are quite as keen 
to hear & discriminate it as for many
years past. There are no House Sparrows
hereabouts now to mar it. 
Spent most of day looking over &
putting away the various things
brought from Ball's Hill yesterday. Also
did a little gardening. Did not get
in woods at all.

Concord.
Ther [Thermometer] Thursday, June 6, 1918 Wea [Weather]
Dull
Cloudy & misty with light easterly wind.
Drenching rain 3-5 P.M., the first for
several weeks & much needed.
  No north-bound migrants noted. Nearly
if not quite all must have passed by now.
Local birds singing freely all day.
Heard the Hermit Thrush, a Veery & the
Peabody bird fr. [from] house at eve. A
Rose-breasted Grosbeak singing divinely
there. One clear voiced Oriole continues
to sing all day in the dooryard elms
but he seems to have neither mate
nor nest. The same is true of our
House Wren. At least 3 male Redstarts
can be heard at all hours near house.
We have two or three pairs of Catbirds
a Yellow Warbler, a Maryland Yellow thrt [Maryland Yellow-throat]
a Song Sparrow, a Tanager & a Towhee
close at hand. Also two [male] Indigo birds
in ceaseless song. Hummingbirds visit
our flower bed daily.
  Spent forenoon with Zeph & George
hauling wood & rearranging things. In
late P.M. worked among flowers.
At eve went to pool at foot of orchard
slope & netted some Wood Frog tadpoles.