Concord
Ther [Thermometer], Thursday July 11, 1918 Wea [Weather]
Fine
Early morning cloudy followed by clear,
seasonably warm day. Light westerly wind.
Heavy thunder shower at night (9-11 P.M.)
Bird music declining fast. Robins,
Towhee, White-thr. Sparrow [White-throated Sparrow], Veery &
Cat bird still singing freely, Indigo bird
& Song Sparrow heard only occasionally.
Wood Pewee in full song 8-9 A.M. in
our dooryard elm where he pushed on
dead branches, darting out every now &
then after flying insects. This reminds
me that twice, within the past few
days, I have seen a Robin pursue &
capture a medium-sized whitish
moth flying low & deviously over a lawn.
7 adult Swifts circling close about our
house this morning & 3 or 4 at other
hours. while the brood of young in
back room flue were noisy all day.
  Transplanted nasturtiums, zinnias etc
in forenoon. George helping me. In 
P.M. cut down elms & maples (or rather
Zeph did under my supervision) in 
Berry Pas. [Berry Pasture]. Started 2 Woodcock there &
saw [female] after supper, standing erect in
roadway below field front of house.

Concord
Ther [Thermometer], Friday July 12, 1918 Wea [Weather]
Fine
Sunny, windless, very warm & humid.
Two thunder showers passed to south & east in
late P.M. but we got only a light sprinkle
of rain here.
  Robins, Song Sparrows, Indigo birds (2),
Towhee, White-throated Sparrow & Grass Finch
singing freely especially at sunset. A
Veery in Berry Pasture sang almost
ceaselessly all day & late into evening
twilight. The Warblers one and all have
lapsed into complete silence. So too have
the Cat birds since yesterday.
At 8 A.M. a loose scattered flock of 15
Barn Swallows passed passed over high in air S.E. [southeast].
At evening two Cliff Swallows appeared.
Goldfinches in full song now. A
Hairy Woodpecker spends the whole of
every day digging out borers from the
much infested trees about our house.
  Spent most of forenoon in old barn
where Zeph & Burbank put up a lot 
of sheathing. In P.M. Zeph & I cut a lot of
birch stakes for dahlias on slope below
orchard. Found a few full grown Gyp [Gypsy moth]
larvae on the trees.