1892
June 9
Concord, Massachusetts.
Mass.
Concord to Cambridge.- Cloudy with heavy showers in
the afternoon. Warm.

  Left Concordat 9.30 a.m. and drove to
Cambridge one my favorite road via Sandy Pond
& the Lyman place.
  Birds singing freely all the forenoon.  In Sandy Pond woods heard no less than three Nashville
Warblers. Noted only one Bobolink after leaving
Concord and but two Meadow Larks. Saw a
pair of Carolina Doves about half a mile east of the library in Lincoln.
  The foliage of the elms and apple trees is badly
injured and, in some places, wholly destroyed,
between Mathew and Mt Auburn.   [?] worms
& Tent Caterpillars seem to have caused most
of the damage but in our place near Clematis
Brook station I saw what I took to be Gypsy Moth
larvae. Here the trees & bushes of every species were
stripped perfectly bare. I  saw a Red Cedar which
had been treated like the deciduous trees by which 
it was surrounded.  Some of the elms looked as
they do in winter and the apple orchards were 
as brown as if a fire had run through them,
an occasional tuft of green marking the foliage
about an Oriole's or Chipping Sparrow's nest where
the birds had kept the worms at bay and 
saved enough leaves to shelter the nest from
the sun.