Concord
Fine
Clear with light S.W. [southwest] wind. Agreeably
warm thro day but cool at morn & eve.
  Birds singing freely all day. No falling
off as yet in their delightful music
hereabouts. Near house I heard Robins,
Cat bird, Indigo bird, Song Sparrow,
2 Redstarts, Red eye Vireo [Red-eyed Vireo], Chestnut side
Warbler [Chestnut-sided Warbler], Maryland Yellow-throat, Towhee
Goldfinch, Crested Flycatcher but no
Wren to-day & but one yesterday, although
two were singing here last week.
In Pulpit Rock pine woods heard a
Pine Warbler 2 Black thr. Greens [Black-throated Green Warbler], a
Blackburnian [Blackburnian Warbler] & a Solitary Vireo & Oven
birds; in Birch Field a White thr. Sparrow [White-throated Sparrow]
(9-11 A.M.), Hermit Thrush & Indigo bird.
In Prescott pines a Blackburnian [Blackburnian Warbler], Black thr.
Greens [Black-throated Green Warbler] & Tanager; at Ritchie pl. [Ritchie place] a Vesper
Sparrow & Bobolink. Started [male] Woodcock
from cart path in Berry Pasture 5 P.M.
He flew fast & whistled shrill.
Spent forenoon with Zeph cutting birch
stakes at south end Green Field.
Strolled through Berry Pas. [Berry Pasture] & Ritchie 
place in late P.M. 

Concord
Ther [Thermometer] Wednesday, June 26, 1918 Wea [Weather]
Fine
Brilliantly clear with light, cool easterly
wind. Very cool at morn & eve.
  Bird music less in amount & fervor than 
that of yesterday. Chippies [Chipping Sparrow] wholly silent.
Two Cat birds singing ecstatically at evening,
one front of house, other at Ritchie place.
Veery fluting in run at 8 P.M. No Wren to
be heard anywhere. Both our birds seem to
have disappeared. I doubt if either secured
a mate. Much the same thing happened here
years ago. Then there was only one [male] who
finally went away & returned a week or two
later. Both males here this month spent
most of their time singing but part of it
carrying sticks into pole boxes near house.
2 Crows coming close about house pursued
by irate Robins. 2 more in Pulpit Rock
woods accompanied by noisy young on 
wing. I shot twice at latter with 22 cal [calibre] rifle
but missed both shots. 
  Spent most of day near house with
Burbank who was making chicken yards &
Zeph who cut down dead trees. Puffer
came to saw 8 cords of wood at Ritchie
place & George helped him. They worked
about 7 hours.